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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:41PM (#27010133)
> as opposed to finding every application that uses the library and updating each separately.

Now with Docker, it becomes, find all the Docker containers that have that shared library, which may even be a bigger pain.

Not all uses, but it seems as if a significant use of Docker is just a a very complicated replacement for a single statically linked binary.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by fxtentacle on Saturday May 01, 2021 @05:57PM (#27010256)
Fully agree. I have a collection of tensorflow docker containers because installing multiple versions in parallel won't work.
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