• Takios@feddit.de
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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.