• Alex@feddit.ro
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      2 years ago

      This seems really cool!

      But dynamic linking saves space AFAIK

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        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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          2 years ago

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

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            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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        2 years 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.

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      Neat, I wish some of these projects weren’t so apt to prime themselves for corporate takeover and instead stuck more with copy left.

      Though I think I prefer the guix set up of keeping a unique package based on checksum and linking those out as required.