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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by encryptluks2 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @04:25AM (#27013334)
I'm assuming they already are using the package manager. The issue is that there are so many dependencies for a single package, and almost every system update consist of updating a bunch of Haskell packages which just clutters maintenance.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by drran on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:40AM (#27015201)
Distribution does it job: it distributes upstream changes. It's like blaming a zip file, because it contains many small files instead of a few big, so it clutters maintenance. If you see this as a problem, then fix upstream. For me, it's important to receive all upstream changes in one update.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by encryptluks2 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:54AM (#27015309)
You still could. With proper build systems they could be pushing a new package whenever a dependency gets updated, or daily.
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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by lobocinza on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:59AM (#27015355)
Daily would be a huge improvement but preferably less if it is non critical and I am not using testing repos.
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