Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 25, 2025 15:02 UTC (Tue) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118)In reply to: Shared libraries by SLi
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
> The claim that this is not sustainable for Debian also seems strange, given that a lot of distros do manage to do it (including non-commercial ones like NixOS).
> given that a lot of distros do manage to do it (including non-commercial ones like NixOS).
NixOS is only managing to do it because commercial sponsors dump relatively huge money into operation of their CI and binary cache.
Same also goes for other "non-commercial" distros — if you look closer, you'll find they all have commercial sponsors subsidizing the infrastructure.