Thanks, 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 mu

Thanks, 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.