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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by ttt0 on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:50PM (#27011030)
I don't argue for automatic updates. It's pretty much whatever we already have, but instead of updating a single library, you'd have to update every package that depends on that library.

I'm just throwing ideas around so you should definitely take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. It just would be interesting to see a distro like that and see what the downsides of this solution are. Chances are that there probably already is something like this and I'm just not aware of it and I'm reinventing the wheel.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by MereInterest on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:44PM (#27011944)
Ah, got it. Sorry, I misinterpreted "update everything regularly" to imply developers forcing automatic updates on every user.

I'm in the same boat, as somebody who isn't in the security field. I try to keep up with it, but will occasionally comment on things that I don't understand.

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