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be at the mercy of the devs to provide the update. Not a group of active maintainers behind the distro, but many individual devs, some of whom lack the time or motivation and sustainability. The same goes for Docker containers, Flatpak and similar!

This is called static linking or bundling. Instead of rebuilding and updating a single shared library, you have to rebuild and update every single thing that links/bundles it. In the case of static linking, you usually can’t even tell which (2/3)