I too wonder if it's worth the effort to ship around a trillion versions of different libs (with their trillions of different versions of dependency libs)^n. O

I too wonder if it's worth the effort to ship around a trillion versions of different libs (with their trillions of different versions of dependency libs)^n. One neat thing about it is that we get to override functionality easily, either by replacing entire binaries (such as we do with glide-wrappers to get our 3Dfx fix on modern windows machines) or by using LD_PRELOAD to load hooking SOs to fixup data in old binaries as they are used.