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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by vinay_ys on Sunday May 02, 2021 @02:34AM (#27012830)
Software is composable - at compile/package time. It doesn't have to be composable at use time.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by Ericson2314 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:30AM (#27015123)
I agree entirely, but vendoring breaks composition compile/package time by definition!

If you have compositional packages you bake into one giant executable or something, that's still not vendoring.

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