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		porridgeraisin on Feb 22, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Suckless.org: software that sucks less Can you explain more? Curious and not able to google and understand this thread. Specifically, what is stopping libc redistributables from being possible? And why disk size limitations from back then caused this situation.

forrestthewoods on Feb 22, 2025 [–]

Once upon a time hard drive space mattered and so it was arguably better to use shared libraries to reduce duplication. This is no longer relevant.

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