27 Dec
2025
27 Dec
'25
6:02 p.m.
Am 23.12.2025 um 10:41 schrieb tblodt@icloud.com:
I think I think of it like, the responsibility for fixing this kind of problem is on the packager, and it would be much better to fail noisily so it can be caught earlier by the people who should be fixing it.
On Linux external libraries are usually provided by the distribution. I think a concern is that we don't want so spam the user if e.g. the 32 bit LDAP library fails to load. For things like GL/Vulkan/d3d there is usually a more obvious message if the application does try to make use of it rather than just accidentally linking to ddraw. That said, I am not the one who wrote the syscall infrastructure, so I am just guessing here.