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> it may have made a couple of devs lives easier, how do you propose to have software depending on, say, Qt 5.15 for hidpi bugfixes and ffmpeg 4.3 for codec su

> it may have made a couple of devs lives easier, how do you propose to have software depending on, say, Qt 5.15 for hidpi bugfixes and ffmpeg 4.3 for codec support, available for users stuck on ubuntu 16.04 or debian jessie ?

zamadatix 6y ago
Static linking doesn't require a container format.
- jcelerier 6y ago
  Static linking does not reasonably work for graphical apps on linux due to libGL, since you'd have to choose one libgl implementation at link time and basically embed the GPU driver in your program.