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f2f on June 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is a Rust executable large?

this makes the false assumption that updating dynamic libraries never introduces any new bugs.

majewsky on June 3, 2016 [–]

No, it makes a trade-off. Especially on the stable channel of Debian/RHEL/SLES, an update will most of the time fix more bugs than it introduces.

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