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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by zaroth on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:34AM (#32541168)
This is the joy of static linking!

In the end does anyone really care if it’s a 10MB tarball versus a 330kb tarball?

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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by 1over137 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:43AM (#32541265)
Yes, many of us care.
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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by goodpoint on Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:53PM (#32543789)
Yes, very much so. Maintaining the security of OSes where many applications statically link thousands of dependencies is impossible.
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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by memco on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:53AM (#32541373)
You care when you need to deploy stuff to remote servers the time difference between 10MB and 330kb. There’s also data transfer costs to consider.

I never had a problem with how long it took to install dependencies until I had to do it multiple times over in quick succession.

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Re:Uacme: ACMEv2 client written in plain C with minimal depe... by lapser on Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:35PM (#32543611)
Why wouldn't you upload the file to all the servers, and then deploy them all in succession, rather than upload and deploy in sequence?
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