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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by Wowfunhappy on Sunday January 12, 2020 @10:10AM (#22026577)
That’s great on a personal level, but bigger picture, aren’t we going about this the wrong way?

If most people are using containers because “applications were never designed to be compiled entirely static”, developers should start designing their applications so they can be compiled entirely static.

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by sitkack on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:25PM (#22028545)
It is an unfortunately hard problem that would take agreement by thousands to fix. Thus containers.

In pre-history this tool worked ok for some things, I don't believe it still functions on modern systems.

http://statifier.sourceforge.net/

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