alt Hacker NewsYour apt update would still be huge though. When the dependency changes (eg. a security update) you’d be downloading rebuilds of 20 apps. For the update of a key library, you’d be downloading your entire distribution again. Every time.
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staticassertion • yesterday at 11:25 PM
Oh, well yeah, statically linked binaries have that downside. I guess I don't think that's a big deal, but I could maybe imagine on some devices that are heavily constrained that it could be? IDK. Compression is insanely effective.
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NixOS "suffers" from this. It's really not that bad if you have solid bandwidth. For me it's more than worth the trade off. With a solid connection a major upgrade is still just a couple minutes.