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by XorNot 1615 days ago
I don't much care for static linking. I do care about it being too difficult to have multiple versions of the same shared library, and no easy distribution mechanism when I just want to shoot a binary over to some system and run it.

In an ideal world, archives would be well structured executables and my system would automatically deduplicate libraries out of them when they landed on the local filesystem. The linker would automatically pull a whitelist of "known bad" and do overrides for me from my package manager/security source automatically.