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Linux distribution fix vulnerabilities in shared libraries all the time. Imagine statically linking openssl having to rebuild tenths of thousands of packages e
by goodpoint 6y ago
Linux distribution fix vulnerabilities in shared libraries all the time.
Imagine statically linking openssl having to rebuild tenths of thousands of packages every time there's an update!
- sagichmal 6y agoRebuilding tens of thousands of packages on a dependency upgrade is not a big deal.
- goodpoint 6y agoRebuilding and running tests on that amount of packages every time there's a security update in a dependency is completely unsustainable for Linux distribution as well as the internal distributions in large companies. I worked these systems in various large organization and distros. We did the math. On top of that, delivering frequent very large updates to deployed systems is very difficult in a lot of environments.