[GTALUG] Flatpak: Anyone with Experience or Opinions on It?

Dhaval Giani dhaval.giani at gmail.com
Fri Nov 3 13:09:47 EDT 2017


On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 1:04 PM, John Sellens via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> I've long found it disappointing the way shared libraries are dealt with
> in linux and other OSs.
>
> To me, the obvious solutions is to install every library into a directory
> named for the version, or name the library itself with a version number.
> Then, if you wish, a default version can be chosen and linked/symlinked
> into the default directory.
>
> That way, a program that wants a particular version gives the
> compiler/linker the appropriate search path to find the preferred version.
>

How do you ensure security updates happen everywhere, or that you are
not linking to an insecure version? What about old software which is
no longer maintained? Also work is not duplicated?

Dhaval


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