Proposal: Deprecate static dlopen

[Florian Weimer]

See this thread for some background:

   https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-12/msg00521.html

The only useful application for dlopen is access to NSS functionality 
because static dlopen binaries are more tightly tied to a specific glibc 
version than dynamically linked binaries.  If we provide NSS access 
through a helper program (e.g., a special mode of getent), then the need 
for dlopen goes away, and static linking even becomes more usable.

Thanks,
Florian
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