[kwlug-disc] Xubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 Upgrade
Ronald Barnes
ron at ronaldbarnes.ca
Tue Oct 8 16:34:08 EDT 2024
William Park via kwlug-disc wrote on 2024-10-08 13:19:
> What is wrong about static linking? You know exactly what went into
> the binary. Sometimes, you want that, no?
As with many things, it's got its pros and cons.
For dynamic linking, as I understand it:
Pros:
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A bug in a dependency can potentially be updated faster as the distro
can push out updated libraries.
File sizes are smaller (but these days that's not significant).
Cons:
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Developers don't have bug reports from someone running a distro that has
incompatible libraries (not the dev's problem).
Can't run different versions with different dependencies concurrently.
It was dynamic linking that (almost?) got us the xz-utils problem
recently. systemd was planning on statically linking xz-utils so the
malware authors rushed out their patches while they still worked.
My 2¢
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