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Given this scheme, how would you distribute a security patch? Is each user of the library supposed to re-compile against the patched library?

No, this is the responsibility of the server which distributes binaries to users via the package manager.

User, as in programmer who uses the library.

Programmers are used to recompiling all the time. What's the problem here?

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