From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

A lot of lackeys have commented recently on the "wonders"
of Flatpack, et.al.

Ha, ha, ha! What fuckin' dupes!

Hey lackeys. Ever hear of "static linking?"

I acquired a GNU/Linux C program from 1999. For me, it
was critical.

But the program could not execute with the latest versions
of libtiff:

<https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/>

Therefore, I had to build an early, and deprecated, version
of libtiff and then statically link it to the program:

<https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/old/>

gcc -static...

That will do the trick.

I suppose that we can call this a "Flatpack, et.al."

But I don't subscribe to such lackey nonsense. To me
it's just static linking.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

GNU/Linux/FOSS never discards anything. Access to source
code from 1990 onward is always available.

But it's not for lackey use.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
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