Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

Lawrence D’Oliveiro <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:40:06 -0000 (UTC)

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On Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:20:27 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> I'm still a fan of static-linked binaries. No DLL hell, no installer
> that has to know where to scatter a myriad of files, no breakages
> when a library gets updated.

To those of us who take for granted that there will be a systemwide
package manager to handle the dependencies and updates, built on an
underlying platform that knows how to handle shared-library
versioning, none of that is a problem.