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0 pointschainsaw108y ago0 comments

> Which would work if licenses and copyrights didn't exist.

I don't think it would.

Dynamic linking allows a library to be patched once and have the patch apply to all the programs using it. If every program was statically linked, you would have to update each one individually.

Not to mention the waste of space.

I'm guessing much of that is moot these days, but IMHO it's still something to aim for.

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isostatic8y ago

Patch a library and perhaps you end up breaking some programs that rely on that library.

The benefit of that goes away with containers anyway, you don't share libraries, every instance gets its own install.

digi_owl8y ago

Could have sworn that _nix already had mechanisms for loading different lib versions side by side...

digi_owl8y ago

I think GP is being snarky/sarcastic.

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0 pointschainsaw108y ago0 comments

> Which would work if licenses and copyrights didn't exist.

I don't think it would.

Dynamic linking allows a library to be patched once and have the patch apply to all the programs using it. If every program was statically linked, you would have to update each one individually.

Not to mention the waste of space.

I'm guessing much of that is moot these days, but IMHO it's still something to aim for.

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isostatic8y ago

Patch a library and perhaps you end up breaking some programs that rely on that library.

The benefit of that goes away with containers anyway, you don't share libraries, every instance gets its own install.

digi_owl8y ago

Could have sworn that _nix already had mechanisms for loading different lib versions side by side...

digi_owl8y ago

I think GP is being snarky/sarcastic.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse