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   Jef Poskanzer :batman: (jef@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 08:08:42 JST Jef Poskanzer :batman:

   Is it time to ditch shared libraries? Static linked executables only?

   To recap, shared libraries were invented because exes were large and storage space was small. When I was developing pbmplus, static exes for all the programs would have taken up literally half my disk. Unfortunately, vendors didn't settle on a standard for building and using shared libraries, so they were a portability mess.

   Today, storage space is plentiful but the portability mess remains. How about we get rid of it?

   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: repeated this.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 08:08:42 JST jwz

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     @jef If that was how things were done, good luck figuring out which apps contained the xz exploit.