My point was that it does both. It didn't ditch dynamic system libraries, and it's better off for it than the rest of 'em. The fun thing about the python ecosy

My point was that it does both. It didn't ditch dynamic system libraries, and it's better off for it than the rest of 'em. The fun thing about the python ecosystem, is that even if you write an application for the latest version of Pillow, its API is stable, and you're unlikely to actually use anything introduced only in the newest version, so switching between versions is largely free (though you should definitely specify a minimum version reflecting the functionalities you actually use). In the worst case, the distro will eventually catch up with the library version your software needs, and then it can be packaged. Unlike with the node ecosystem, in python land code can easily survive years without upstream maintenance! > Any system integrator that strictly insists on dynamic linking is missing the whole point of building systems in the first place. You can't really say things like this without elaborating.