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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan and upstream
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 02:02:22PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>     Seems to me there's something weird, both, in libreoffice depending on
> just one single version of libstdc++, and in libklabxml being broken by this
> version of libstdc++, be it the fault of kde or libstdc++ developpers.


That's the GCC-5 transition, unstable is broken as it's supposed to. You
can use testing if you're bothered by uninstallable packages (or any other
form of the sky falling).

>     The dependency chains might be shortened by linking at least part of the
> libraries statically. All this dependency buysiness mostly comes from the
> abuse of dynamic linking. The only real advantage of dynamic linking is
> faster upgrade in a distribution, but it often turns out to make it just
> impossible.


Static linking has no place in a distribution. Among numerous other
downsides, any update of a dependency requires a "rebuild world". There's
no way to make a security or bugfix update without such a mass recompile.

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