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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by est31 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @06:03PM (#27010293)
I think it would be possible, yes. Google has even developed a binary diffing system.

https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538339

It would still not be pleasant for disk space. Ideally I want my OS as well as the VMs to be small and require as little ram as possible. I don't want to update my entire OS just because glibc had a critical bug.

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