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Seems to summarize down to a love/hate relationship with shared libraries. Most of the flaws are best explained as the devs, admins, users, security team, and
by VLM 11y ago
Seems to summarize down to a love/hate relationship with shared libraries. Most of the flaws are best explained as the devs, admins, users, security team, and distro maintainers sometimes having different positions on the spectrum of love/hate for shared libraries.
Also don't forget architecture... you want that binary in 32 bit i386, 64 bit amd64, or arm?
- edude03 11y agoIn a nutshell yes. The binary argument is true as well, however many developers don't want to make their sources avaialbe which means other than going source -> some obfuscated IR -> native, thre is no way to allow the end user to run your app on any arbitrary platform.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThere is. It's called fat binaries. Ryan C. Gordon was working on an ELF extension for it, but ended up quitting due to getting shit on by kernel hackers and common users alike.