• Alex@feddit.ro
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    11 months ago

    This seems really cool!

    But dynamic linking saves space AFAIK

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      11 months ago

      It also makes updating easier. When a lib has a bug it can be fixed by updating one package. If every application on your system was statically linked, each one of these would have to be updated individually.

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        11 months ago

        But then you definitely wouldn’t have errors with different apps requiring different versions of the same library.

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          11 months ago

          But then you definitely wouldn’t have errors with different apps requiring different versions of the same library.

          That’s why libfoo.so.1.2.3, libfoo.so.1.2.4, libfoo.so.1.3.9, etc. exist. Flatpak also exists. Just link to a specific version of a freedesktop.org Runtime.

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      11 months ago

      But dynamic linking saves space AFAIK

      Yes, it does and while I’m not a pedant about saving every possible byte in a time of terabyte SSDs, static linking everything is just insanely wasteful.