Package: ld-linux.so.X
When we, I, write an application on Linux, we do installation from the repositories (or even the installation of "-dev" packages in addition if "soft symlink" is missing) for the needed shared libraries (fore exeample: Firebird, ...). But, once the application is finished, I will uninstall everything about Firebird, and from the content of the download of its *.tar.gz, I must create a client installation with AppImage + its yaml scripts (my choice). It's not so easy. The problem is that on *nix the escape like on Window or MacOS ( putting dlls together with the application !!!) doesn't work, making versioning issues more complex, specially when using official packaging systems ==> "DLL-hell" now only exists under *nix \ Linux. Can Linux improve its binary compatibility and be less forced in its package management (specially: versioning on Desktop. It's really always "DLL-hell": if you want to start distributing the libraries\packages and resulting files apart, on Linux Desktop, then you get into the dependency problems). Honestly, I think that the Linux ELF's program loader ( ld-linux.so.X ), on Linux idiosyncrasy directories, would require an evolution that would make Linux as convenient as Windows or MacOS from the point of view of desktop developments, i. e. starting by ***first*** looking in the same directory as the loaded application, if the NEEDED library would not be there, by the best of luck. -- Best regards
