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Date:   Sun, 2 May 2021 19:45:42 +0300
From:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:12:37AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 2:31 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > The biggest advantage of shared libraries is that they enable
> > distributions to provide security fixes.
> 
> Adrian - you're ignoring the real argument, to the point that the
> above is basically a lie.
> 
> The argument was never that things like libc or the core GUI libraries
> shouldn't be shared.
> 
> The argument was that the "one-off" libraries shouldn't be shared.
> 
> Things very much like libLLVM.so.
>...

Mesa and PostgreSQL are among the packages that do use libLLVM.so,
this is a popular library for implementing compilers and JITs.

>             Linus

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Adrian