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Even if you just use 2 apps that depends on 1 library, there may be tens or hundreds of such apps in the distribution repository (which is, btw, the case for li

Even if you just use 2 apps that depends on 1 library, there may be tens or hundreds of such apps in the distribution repository (which is, btw, the case for libgmp). A bug in such library would force distribution maintainers to release new packages for all these applications, instead of just one. I think that if the library is independent upstream project, then there is no reason why it should not be dynamically-linked independent package in distributions.

IshKebab 2y ago
> A bug in such library would force distribution maintainers to release new packages for all these applications, instead of just one. Surely that's automated?
- RetroTechie 2y ago
  > Surely that's automated? Doesn't matter. You'd rather update X separate packages (of unknown size & potentially different maintainers or update policies) to fix 1 bug in a library they all happen to use? Shared libraries are a good thing, period. Implemented poorly? Fix that instead, rather than include everything & the kitchen sink in every single app.