Deduplication, in the sense of physical space reduction, seems like the least strong argument one could make for dynamic linking these days. The strongest argu

Deduplication, in the sense of physical space reduction, seems like the least strong argument one could make for dynamic linking these days. The strongest argument I can think of, is enabling system managers (distro maintainers, even end users) to update dependencies. This might be to apply a security patch, enable some kind of tracing for profiling an application, and so on.