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by tgpc 403 days ago
shared libs happened because memory was scarce

pretty cool that we are undoing it as a design decision

but it will take a long time

1 comments

You missed the joke.

Flatpak is not getting rid of shared libraries. They're just reimplementing them in a way that's strictly worse in multiple ways.

Re-read the section "How Flatpak Tries to Save Space: Runtimes and Deduplication" in the article.