On Wed, 13 Jul 2016, Florian Weimer wrote:
I assumed it was intended as a recovery tool if something is wrong with the
DSO symbolic links, which is why I preserved it. On the other hand, in this
day and age, systems will certainly not boot if simple binaries like ln cannot
run, and the system administrator will not be able to log in, so such recovery
actions appear rather unrealistic without the help of a rescue system.
I think sln / static ldconfig are recovery tools for *when already logged
in* (and having just made a mistake with the links).