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Backwards compatibility is not in style anymore. Upgrading several libs system-wide is likely to cause breakage in old apps. A statically linked application doesn't rot (because linux guarantees userspace compatibility). By "doesn't rot" I mean "will keep running indefinitely without requiring some maintainer to keep working on the code indefinitely."

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This is crazy because it's a flatpak, which should be a blob with all its deps in there, like a statically linked application "but better" for other system reasons because e.g. you can sandbox the app by design.

For this reason I don't understand why did they changed the library in there (that build of OBS wasn't broken because of system-wide libs, it was because allegedly they changed the lib in the flatpak), whatever the security hole couldn't they block it "from the outside"?

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