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With everything slowly( or sometimes rapidly) moving into containers (docker, systemd portable services, flatpak, snaps) I think the concept of system library w
by zaro 6y ago
With everything slowly( or sometimes rapidly) moving into containers (docker, systemd portable services, flatpak, snaps) I think the concept of system library will probably become irrelevant at some point not that far into the future.
- ex_amazon_sde 6y agoThis would make it impossible to achieve the most basic level of security.
- zozbot234 6y agoContainers (and containerish systems like flatpak) still have portable dependencies that are equivalent to "system" libraries in this context.
- arp242 6y agoI don't think we're anywhere near a future where "ls" will be run in a container.
- krageon 6y agoI used to think that we're not anywhere near a future where most applications came bundled with an entire browser, yet here we are.
- gspr 6y agoHow does it matter whether a library is a "system" one or not?
- jononor 6y agoThe expectation is that with a "system" package, one can update that one package and (basically) everything on the system now uses that new version. Practical for security and important bugfixes.
- wirrbel 6y agoIt's still a system library just a system stuffed into a container.