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I don't recall where the original discussions following the zlib incident were, but here is the current rationale from one major distribution: https://fedorapro
by cesarb 7y ago
I don't recall where the original discussions following the zlib incident were, but here is the current rationale from one major distribution: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries
- effie 7y agoThanks, this confirms my impression - the distributions are prone to think "we want to organize the software, but keeping up-to-date upstream software is too much work, so we'll use shared libraries and freeze everything to older versions". Which I understand as a pragmatic solution, but it is far from clear that this gives users more security.