Do you feel comfortable ripping out a shared library used by many different binaries on a production system and replacing it with a new one? I would be pretty

Do you feel comfortable ripping out a shared library used by many different binaries on a production system and replacing it with a new one? I would be pretty scared to do that. I would rather replace all the binaries separately. If one of the new binaries didn't work, I could go back to the old version. I do agree that the shared library approach uses less network bandwidth, but is that really a big problem these days? Unless you're sysadminning over dialup, chances are you don't really care. The size of binaries has plateaued at a meg or two even as networks have continued to improve.