splitting off RPC and friends

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <86d5o1q7rw.fsf at xps.des.no>, =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
>Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> writes:
>> RPC and XDR are far from dead. Are you sure splitting these out is
>> wise? We have to keep the code around, for NFS if nothing else. What's
>> the benefit of moving the routines into a separate library?
>
>Faster load times for the great majority of libc consumers which do
>not need XDR, RPC or NIS?

Very few programs are impacted by code in libc which they don't use,
libc tends to be in-core most of the time.

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