Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by Aissen on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:05AM
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Distros have been known to patch packages that wanted a fixed version of a dependency. In fact, most have it has their default policy.
Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by ex_amazon_sde on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:04AM
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Yes, that's my point.
Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by Aissen on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:49AM
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To rephrase what I meant; those two aren't exclusive:
- statically link a library
- have all binaries in the system use the same version of the library, and updated when the library needs to be updated.
No, rebuilding is way heavier.
Even worse, some languages insist on building against fixed version of their dependencies.
It forces distributions to keep multiple version of the same library and this leads to a combinatorics explosion of packages to fix, backport, compile and test.
It's simply unsustainable and it's hurting distributions already.