I am arguing about this on FreeBSD forums - from an end user perspective. I think the benefits of saving disk space by sharing libraries do not justify the inconveniences we, desktop BSD and Linux users, obtain from being forced to disrupt and upgrade hundreds of installed software packages, just because one single desired upgrade requires to pull its dependencies. The whole ecosystem falls down like a card house - once in a while I have to say "screw it" and auto-update more than a thousand packages, praying my Python and other projects survive, just because I want a browser update or a security fix.
I wonder if there are others who support this opinion that desktop Unix has very complicated future unless complex apps will begin to bundle their own libraries.
I wonder if there are others who support this opinion that desktop Unix has very complicated future unless complex apps will begin to bundle their own libraries.