On: Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux

[brlin2021]

This statement is false as snaps also have shared runtimes known as "content snaps".

A common example is the ones with the gnome- prefix and the ones that end with -themes suffix.

[loloquwowndueo → brlin2021]

Wherein snaps found themselves reinventing shared libraries - at which point, what’s really the point.

[Seattle3503 → loloquwowndueo]

I think the point is that maintainers and developers now have a choice of whether they want to share libraries or not. Before the only choice was to share dependencies.

[hedora → Seattle3503]

There has been a choice between shared and static linking since before the Linux kernel existed.

What system are you talking about?

[patrakov → hedora]

Any modern distro. Static libraries are simply not built anymore, so you have nothing to link with, unless you rebuild the whole subsystem yourself.

[hedora → patrakov]

If that's true, it'll be the second thing I check after making sure a distro I'm considering isn't using systemd.

Anyway, you had me worried for a minute, but:

https://packages.debian.org/source/bookworm/libs/

Click on a C library. Click on the *-dev package. There's a 1:1 mapping of .so to .a in the packages I spot checked.

Now I'll go back to enjoying Devuan.