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I don’t really get this. If you’re already replacing shared libraries, how much more difficult is it to replace the full application? Seems that replacing share

I don’t really get this. If you’re already replacing shared libraries, how much more difficult is it to replace the full application? Seems that replacing shared libraries on an ad-hoc manner is exactly the behavior that leads to the infamous incompatibility problems down the road.

saagarjha 8y ago
Of course, fixing the application is always the best solution, but that’s not always possible. If you didn’t write the full application, then this isn’t something you can do. One of my standard use cases for this behavior is loading plugins into system apps and overriding certain behavior, which is generally not intended by the application author (although, in certain cases, this has been tacitly encouraged).