> When you upgrade a library, you probably want to restart the running applications that depend upon this. Dynamic linking won't save you. That's an orthogonal

> When you upgrade a library, you probably want to restart the running applications that depend upon this. Dynamic linking won't save you. That's an orthogonal issue. You need to restart affected services nevertheless, whether it was linked statically or bundled in nix. I wish people stopped repeating this red herring restart argument against dynamic linking every time the topic is brought up.