Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by jrockway on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:40PM
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It's a double-edged sword, though. I find that with Debian I often can't have up-to-date versions of programs I care about, because some program that nobody cares about won't build against an upgraded library version that they mutually depend on.
The requirement that every binary on the system depend on the same shared library basically led to things like app stores and Snap, which I think we can all agree that nobody wants.
Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
by jrockway on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:23PM
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Yeah, and I get my free ride by just downloading the binary from the project's website. Linux distributions add a bunch of arbitrary rules that I don't care about and that don't help me.
The requirement that every binary on the system depend on the same shared library basically led to things like app stores and Snap, which I think we can all agree that nobody wants.