Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by sagichmal on Sunday May 02, 2021 @12:52AM
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Rebuilding tens of thousands of packages on a dependency upgrade is not a big deal.
Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by goodpoint on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:41AM
(#27016187)
Rebuilding and running tests on that amount of packages every time there's a security update in a dependency is completely unsustainable for Linux distribution as well as the internal distributions in large companies.
I worked these systems in various large organization and distros. We did the math.
On top of that, delivering frequent very large updates to deployed systems is very difficult in a lot of environments.
Imagine statically linking openssl having to rebuild tenths of thousands of packages every time there's an update!