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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by Aissen on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:05AM (#27013236)
Distros have been known to patch packages that wanted a fixed version of a dependency. In fact, most have it has their default policy.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by ex_amazon_sde on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:04AM (#27014939)
Yes, that's my point.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by Aissen on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:49AM (#27015253)
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.

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