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I think he has a good point overall, but at the same time I think there can be an equal benefit of shared libraries when it is likely that the library will be s
by encryptluks2 6y ago
I think he has a good point overall, but at the same time I think there can be an equal benefit of shared libraries when it is likely that the library will be shared among multiple applications. It doesn't have to be a tremendous amount.
On Arch, users pick their display manager and windows system, and many Qt applications or GTK applications may share multiple libraries and I can see the benefit of smaller packages and being able to update those libraries separately.
- kelnos 6y agoTorvalds specifically calls out those kinds of shared libraries and considers it reasonable to leave them shared.
- encryptluks2 6y agoHe hinted that for base installations it makes sense. GTK or Qt frameworks and libraries aren't part of the base and the are highly dependent on what app you're installing. Usually if you are just a casual Linux user you wouldn't understand this. In these instances they aren't commonly shared across all applications, just maybe 2 or 3.