[opensource-dev] Is 'STANDALONE' confusing?

[leliel]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)
<oz at lindenlab.com> wrote:
> The real distinction, I think, is whether or not you are using
> _installed_ libraries.  Normally, the viewer build has only minimal
> reliance on the libs that are installed on the system itself

In other words the viewer is normally built as a standalone
application, i.e. the STANDALONE option does the exact opposite of
what you'd expect given the definition of the word. So why not just
invert the meaning of STANDALONE?