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anonymoushn on March 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users

I would rather ship an extra copy of all of the libraries than tell the user that he has to update libc6 (and therefor almost all of the other software he uses) to run my software.

icebraining on March 9, 2012 [–]

Nothing in Linux prevents you from doing so. Just ship your application with it and use a one line shell script to run it with the appropriate LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

It's just not commonly done (with exceptions like http://sta.li/), and as a user, I'm thankful for that.

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