> A statically-linking distro would queue up those thousand packages to be rebuilt and you would receive them via OS update, just as you would with a dynamicall

> A statically-linking distro would queue up those thousand packages to be rebuilt and you would receive them via OS update, just as you would with a dynamically-linking distro. The difference is just in whether you have to download 1000 updated packages or 1. That is a large difference But more significantly, you're assuming the only software installed is from the distro. This isn't what OP is talking about (unless the distro screwed up their package dependencies to get the not found error discussed. Outside the distro-provided software, you either have to rebuild them all manually or wait for the proprietary software to do it and ship you a fix.