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Shared libraries

Posted Dec 6, 2025 17:14 UTC (Sat) by ggreen199 (subscriber, #53396)
In reply to: Shared libraries by ras
Parent article: APT Rust requirement raises questions

> All that said, I'm not a huge fan of the current package model myself. I'd much prefer an immutable core, rather like > MacOS does (but much smaller), and default to complete isolation of the apps running on top of it like Android does. > It would be far more secure by default. But it's decades of work away, and in the mean time Rust's
> monomorphization model doesn't seem to be a good fit for how distro's work today.

There are the new immutable distributions that work like this. For example, Kinoite, in Fedora, which is what I use now. It has an immutable core, and you use flatpaks or containers for everything else. Still early days, but I've been using it all year with no problems.


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