“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”

Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by Ericson2314 on Sunday May 02, 2021 @09:39AM (#27015194)

The number of people who have a "theory of distribution" one way or the other is pretty low.

But

- many people seem to like unified look and feel

- many people complain about per-app auto-update

- many people love to complain software is getting worse

Are these people connecting these complaints to the debate we're having? Probably not. Can these views be connected to that? Absolutely.

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I work on distros and due edit the root dependencies, I also contribute to many libraries I use at work during work, finally, I use the same distro at work on on my own and everything is packaged the same way. So yes, it's a "unified workflow for yak shaves" and I quite like it.

I hope there can be more people like me if this stuff weren't so obnoxiously difficult.

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Re:“Shared libraries are not a good thing in general” by sagichmal on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:16AM (#27036305)

> many people seem to like unified look and feel

All else equal, sure. But they'll sacrifice that in a minute if it means elimination of other toil.

> many people complain about per-app auto-update

Facts not in evidence.

> many people love to complain software is getting worse

Okay.

> I work on distros...

Well, there you go.

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