Static linking may be bad for security but good for saving hours of frustration. It's a trade-off and it's not clear that security is automatically the most imp

Static linking may be bad for security but good for saving hours of frustration. It's a trade-off and it's not clear that security is automatically the most important thing always. Just look at any forum about some open source software. There'll usually be endless posts from people complaining that they can't compile it because of some weird dependency errors. These are really widespread and time-wasting problems.