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> Updating a single package for security fixes or other changes instead of a 1,000 is still vastly more efficient and faster It would be interesting to see the

• binarycrusader 11y ago
  Almost everything uses libc, so that's an easy one. But after that, libraries tend to be domain specific. For example, all C++ programs will probably be linked against libstdc++. Programs compiled with gcc have a good chance of being linked against libgcc_s. All desktop applications are probably going to be linked against libgtk or libqt, libx11, and various other X libraries. In short, there's a significant, obvious benefit. As I mentioned somewhere else though, if a library is only used by a single application and that library and application are built together, then yes, you might as well statically-link it unless there's some other requirement.