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It's a double-edged sword, though. I find that with Debian I often can't have up-to-date versions of programs I care about, because some program that nobody ca

It's a double-edged sword, though. I find that with Debian I often can't have up-to-date versions of programs I care about, because some program that nobody cares about won't build against an upgraded library version that they mutually depend on. The requirement that every binary on the system depend on the same shared library basically led to things like app stores and Snap, which I think we can all agree that nobody wants.

drran 6y ago
It looks like you care about these programs, but you want to have a free ride.
- jcelerier 6y ago
  a free ride that you indeed can get if you link statically
- jrockway 6y ago
  Yeah, and I get my free ride by just downloading the binary from the project's website. Linux distributions add a bunch of arbitrary rules that I don't care about and that don't help me.