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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by drran on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:47AM (#27013149)
It looks like you care about these programs, but you want to have a free ride.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by jrockway on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:23PM (#27018691)
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.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by jcelerier on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:06AM (#27013239)
a free ride that you indeed can get if you link statically
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