I’m talking about things like “python3-blabla” and “libsomething”. How bad would it be if nobody used these library-packages and everyone just added all kinds of libraries as part of an application’s package?
I’m talking about things like “python3-blabla” and “libsomething”. How bad would it be if nobody used these library-packages and everyone just added all kinds of libraries as part of an application’s package?
Well, back in the days of static everything, some OSes had every system command be a hard link to the same binary (just switching on
argv[0], like busybox) so they could still share library pages. This was a big deal when your workstation only had 8MB of core. But to answer your question, I’m sure we will find out in the next few years with all of the garbage containerization and packaging systems popping up.It’s not like we’re back to having 8MB disks though.
Yes, waste and poor stewardship of resources for threadbare rationale is just great!