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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This seems really cool!

But dynamic linking saves space AFAIK

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] woelkchen 14 points 10 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.

[–] woelkchen 3 points 10 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.