Installing to your home drive

Posted Feb 23, 2011 22:36 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Installing to your home drive by talex
Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives

Libraries always seem to be relocatable (not sure why this is; maybe to allow them to be bundled with other relocatable programs?).

That is definitely not always true. The KDE3 libraries, for instance, were not relocatable: they had $datadir and $libdir/kde3 baked into them. (I think the same is true of glib and gtk as well.)