Re: ESR: Goodbye Fedora- big picture

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Steve Friedman wrote:

3) I guess if I could wave a wand, I'd have a set of common fundamental
libraries that get shared and maintain compatibility between distro
releases, and everything else would be handled by the applications
themselves. Maybe this is plain dumb, but it sure would be easier for me...

I'd just have every single app have its very own versions of every library
it needs with a reaper that runs around at low priority hard-linking
the ones that are identical :-).



Then you've forgotten the zlib security issues of only 5 years ago. A security vulernability was found in a compression library common to over 500 apps. Those that dynamically linked to zlib were patched with a single upgrade; however, large numbers of apps had to be recompiled because they statically linked to zlib. This was a *major* security crisis -- and *many* apps/utilities switched to dynamic linking of zlib (and other common libraries) to avoid this happening again.

Steve Friedman

Good point. Is it possible to draw some sort of line in the virtual sand and say these are shared, and those are up to the application? I've been griping for years about the way apps install themselves in all 3 desktop Oses, this zlib point clobbers one of my ideas for sure, but maybe they *all* have to be shared, so thats how we got in this mess.

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