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On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 17:26:23 -0700
Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> On 10/7/15, 4:14 PM, in article 20151008011424.3e47a3b9@maxa-pc,
> "Melzzzzz" <mel@zzzzz.com> wrote:
> 
> >> Actually, that turns out not to be the case.
> >> 
> >> If you run two different applications that use their own versions
> >> of libavcodec, you're not getting one of the big benefits of shared
> >> libraries: saving RAM by only having one copy of the library loaded
> >> into memory.
> >> 
> >> (No wonder OS X isn't happy unless it has 16GB! ;)
> > 
> > Having libraries bundled with application is important in closed
> > source world when application is built against specific version of
> > library. In open source world it is not problem as one can always
> > rebuild application with system library but not so in closed source
> > world. Actually what is done on OSX should be also done on Linux
> > for closed source applications and it is usually done.
> 
> Most people do not want to and would not know how to rebuild an
> application.
> 
> 

True. That is why there are prebuilt packages that got updated when
libraries are upgraded. But nature of Linux is open source so sooner or
later one wants to try to compile something from source...