On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 08:58:42AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:21:49 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > > Additionally, a major difference between Debian (as well as most other > > Linux systems) and Windows is that library packages are installed to be > > available for all other packages on the system. This means that a > > library package forcibly installed to a different location is suddenly > > unavailable for packages that might need it. And this is just the > > beginning of potential problems if you go this route. > > Aren't Windows DLLs roughly analogous to Linux library packages? Not really "library packages", but rather "libraries" or "shared objects". Technically yes, but traditionally DLLs tend to come "with the app", so under Windows it's more frequent for each app to bring along their own version of a DLL. This is now changing a bit with flatpaks and similar things. Cheers - t
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