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Comment by furyofantares | Hacker News Reader

> the OS happened to upgrade the SQLite3 library

I don't think this actually detracts from your point, but, are there cases where that can actually happen? Isn't SQLite always statically linked with the applicaton?

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E.g. on iOS and Android you get access to the system's SQLite library and apparently can't even opt-out (because it is used by system APIs that you will use, if I understand correctly). See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7756332

> Isn't SQLite always statically linked with the applicaton?

SQLite can be dynamically linked, though static linking is probably more common.

according to

`apt-cache rdepends slite3`

on ubuntu 14.04 packages including the following link to sqlite dynamic packages(this may be partially due to debian heavily discouraging statistically linked packages.

  zabbix-proxy-sqlite3
  yokadi
  uwsgi
  usermetricsservice
  trove-common
  sympa
  sqliteman
  sisu-sqlite
  rt4-db-sqlite
  roundcube-sqlite3
  redmine-sqlite
  ratbox-services-sqlite
  postfix-cluebringer-sqlite3
  pdns-backend-sqlite3
  pbnj
  opendnssec-enforcer-sqlite3
  lire
  krecipes
  kamailio-sqlite-modules
  inspircd
  imms-common
  hud-tools
  gbrowse
  eurephia
  dotclear
  beancounter
  adminer
  bacula-director-sqlite3

sqlite3 is the package that provides the command-line tool. A lot more packages depend on the dynamic library: "apt-cache rdepends libsqlite3-0 | wc -l" returns 407 results.

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