“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by johnny22 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:14PM (#27009886)

sure, some packages in some of the popular distros are indeed like that. If the package is important enough (like firefox) and the required dependencies are a bit out of step with what's currently used by the rest of the distribution you will sometimes see that for at least some of the dependencies.

Most distros dislike doing so, and scale it back as soon as it becomes technically possible.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by ttt0 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:42PM (#27010140)

But they dislike just packages requiring different versions of libraries, right? My point is to do literally everything as it is right now, but simply link it statically. You can still have the same version of a library across all packages, you just build a static library instead of a dynamic one.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by danShumway on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:19PM (#27009942)

This is odd to me, because surely they have to maintain that list anyway so they know which dependent packages need to be tested before releasing bugfixes?

Or is that step just not happening?

I just feel like, one of the big points of a package manager is that I can look up "what is program X's dependencies, and what packages rely on it?"

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