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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Eh, that’s not the joy you think it is.

That’s how software used to be distributed and that’s where the terms DLL / Decency Hell come from and why programs used to not uninstall cleanly and break other programs, etc.

It’s more efficient, but it’s also brittler and a lot more complex to manage. Conversely, bundling everything together with all its dependencies is a lot easier to manage, and a lot more robust overall, but comes at the expense of storage capacity and network bandwidth.

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