"Snap is the equivalent of static linking". So why not statically link? Encouraging software to work with static linking would be helpful for unikernels also.

"Snap is the equivalent of static linking". So why not statically link? Encouraging software to work with static linking would be helpful for unikernels also. With delta compression, I think my weekly updates on Arch are at least 200MiB, not even counting particularly large packages. Over a month, nearly half the system is replaced. For static linking (or equivalent) to be practical for those of us with limited bandwidth connections there would need to be some excellent cross-binary delta compression. In some situations it is useful, but for a general purpose system I think shared libraries make more sense. OpenPandora's PND system is another example of prior art. http://pandorawiki.org/Introduction_to_PNDs http://pandorawiki.org/Introduction_to_PNDs