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by ok123456 819 days ago
Rust is the issue here because it doesn't give you much of an option. And that option is the wrong one if you need to do an emergency upgrade of a particular library system-wide.
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It's really not, it's not hard to do a reverse search of [broken lib] <= depends on <= [rust application] and then rebuild everything that matches. You might have to rebuild more, but that's not really hard with modern build infrastructure.

Not to mention if you have a Rust application that depends on C libraries, it already dynamically links on most platforms. You only need to rebuild if a Rust crate needs to be updated.