Re:Nix 1.0 released: purely functional linux package manager
by ori_b on Sunday May 13, 2012 @08:18PM
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Exactly. And is the result different from keeping old versions of libc around and linking all programs you haven't updated against it? From the description, that's what this system does.
If dependencies never change in place, you're emulating static linking with a dynamic linker.
If dependencies never change in place, you're emulating static linking with a dynamic linker.