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by thraway123412 1880 days ago
I agree that shared libraries are mostly unneeded complexity, as far as free & open source programs are concerned.

I kinda like how they open up opportunities for fixing or tweaking the behavior of broken proprietary binary-only garbage without requiring you to RE and patch a massive binary blob. Of course, in a better world, that garbage wouldn't exist and we'd fix the source instead.