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If by broken you mean having the latest features and security patches. Dynamically linked binaries are very fragile and not portable.
by foobar33333 5y ago
If by broken you mean having the latest features and security patches. Dynamically linked binaries are very fragile and not portable.
- necovek 5y agoLatest features and security patches rarely go hand-in-hand: it's usually latest features and new security bugs instead. Developers want to maintain a single branch because that's much cheaper, not because it's the ultimate solution to all the problems of maintaining software.