I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can’t tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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      1 year ago

      @TheBaldness
      When you bundle everything for an app inside a self-contained directory, it’s no different than static linking a binary.

      An exploit in a library the package links against means that application is still vulnerable even if the same library on the operating system has been updated to fix the security flaw.