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I think not. The landscape of software packaging is too unpleasant and chaotic, the goals of its participants--users vs package collection (distro) maintainers
by zbentley 5y ago
I think not. The landscape of software packaging is too unpleasant and chaotic, the goals of its participants--users vs package collection (distro) maintainers vs. software authors--too misaligned.
Instead, what I think (hope) will happen is a simultaneous increase in prevalence of two things: "effectively static" software releases (whether that's an actual static binary or a container/flatpak/exodus-bundled folder/whatever), and sandboxing/isolation tools at the OS level, to prevent the statically linked dependencies in installed programs from causing harm to the system.
There will probably always be exceptions made for software that by necessity must be integrated tightly with the whole computer (window managers etc.), but I don't think people are going to rediscover dynamic linking en masse.