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Posted Sep 1, 2014 21:12 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)In reply to: Security by cyperpunks
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Which they often don't. Instead ad-hoc installations tend to bundle the libraries because they want to be independent of the distribution.
Posted Sep 2, 2014 9:52 UTC (Tue)
by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
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I did use a software that bundled the openssl library because they wanted to be independent of the distribution. Of course they failed, because a newer version of the same distribution had newer glibc with new bugs, so after an OS upgrade the software stopped working...