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Shared libraries

Posted Nov 25, 2025 18:31 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Shared libraries by nim-nim
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

> That’s a workaround not a feature, it transforms updates in mass rebuilds, that require a lot more build power, and add an economic barrier to entry to the distribution game (not that the big distributors will complain much about this part).

Eh, no. Unless you're targeting something like m68k, rebuilding is cheap. We can use Gentoo as an example, rebuilding the world takes about 12 hours on a reasonably fast computer. And this is for a catastrophic bug, where everything needs to be updated.

In most cases, you're looking at maybe a handful of packages.


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