Comment Comment by debiandev Correct.Furthermore, rebuilding and distributing a large number of large binaries every time a vulnerability is fixed is harmful!- It encourage users to delay security updates. Hundreds of millions in the world have slow or expensive or capped Internet connectivity.- Makes the distribution unsuitable for many embedded/IoT/industrial/old devices with very limited storage- It gives the impression that the distribution is bloated. parent debiandev 6 years ago
Furthermore, rebuilding and distributing a large number of large binaries every time a vulnerability is fixed is harmful!
- It encourage users to delay security updates. Hundreds of millions in the world have slow or expensive or capped Internet connectivity.
- Makes the distribution unsuitable for many embedded/IoT/industrial/old devices with very limited storage
- It gives the impression that the distribution is bloated.