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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by arminiusreturns on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:08PM (#24618161)
I had always hoped the way Gobolinux approached this would start being adopted by other distros.
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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by Slackwise on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:43PM (#24619276)
I'm more interested in the Nix/Guix approach, where you get the benefit of exact version linking, but also an "immutable" version controlled OS, so things like Puppet aren't necessary to manage state. (And likewise, deploy small VMs/containers with just the package manager tools without needing Docker as the entire OS state can be rebuilt using a definition file/version hash.)
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Re:Static Linking Considered Harmful (2004) by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:16PM (#24618967)
Yeah, it seems ideal. But I've not used it, yet, mostly because it's such a big change.
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