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No, it is not cumbersome to reinstall every program that relies on OpenSSL. My /usr/bin directory is only 633 MB. I can download that in less than a minute. The
by bjourne 6y ago
No, it is not cumbersome to reinstall every program that relies on OpenSSL. My /usr/bin directory is only 633 MB. I can download that in less than a minute. The build is handled by my distro's build farm and it would have no problem building and distributing statically linked binaries if they ever became the norm.
- zxzax 6y agoThat is going back to the same issues with containers, where everything works just fine... as long as you build it from your own statically-configured repo and you rebuild the whole system every update. It's useless once you try to install any binaries from an external package source. And IMO, a world where nobody ever sends anyone else a binary is not a practical or useful one.
- bjourne 6y agoYes? Rebuilding and (retesting!) the system on every major update is not a bad idea at all. I rarely install binaries from out-of-repo sources so that is not a great problem for me. And those I do install tend to be statically linked anyway.