> with fast networks, huge disks, fast processors --- it seems wasteful to me to even consider shared libraries. The problem is that you will always have to re

> with fast networks, huge disks, fast processors --- it seems wasteful to me to even consider shared libraries. The problem is that you will always have to rebuild all packages that link against a certain library when a security update is released so that if the user installs a security update, they will have to download several gigabytes instead of just a few megabytes.