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Re:Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker conta... by isostatic on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:17AM (#14231016)
Patch a library and perhaps you end up breaking some programs that rely on that library.

The benefit of that goes away with containers anyway, you don't share libraries, every instance gets its own install.

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Re:Tiny Linux distro that runs the entire OS as Docker conta... by digi_owl on Sunday April 30, 2017 @08:07AM (#14231170)
Could have sworn that _nix already had mechanisms for loading different lib versions side by side...
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