Shared libraries
Shared libraries
Posted Nov 26, 2025 7:23 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Shared libraries by Heretic_Blacksheep
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions
> Cumulative. Imagine having to replace your entire distro 10-15 GB installation every couple of weeks.
This is a simply ridiculously overblown comparison. The total size of non-kernel-related binaries on my desktop Linux computer is 1Gb. And they don't need to _all_ change every time.
Assuming that ALL of them need to be replaced, that's already an order of magnitude less. But let's roll with it. An unmetered 10GB port is around $200 a month, and an M2 SSD can easily saturate it. If you want to serve static files, that's probably around $300 a month expense.
A 10GB port can serve the 1Gb in about 1 second. So 86400 people daily, and over a month that's 2.5 million people. This is more than the number of users for most small distros.