It's really a lot more complicated than that on the packager's side. What you're seeing is likely the result of the person building the binaries already linkin

It's really a lot more complicated than that on the packager's side. What you're seeing is likely the result of the person building the binaries already linking everything statically that's possible, using older compatibility versions of the shared libraries, and hoping for the best on the rest, being certain not to make use of recent or volatile features.