Right, but they don't do so using the default loader, it looks like they likely do it via dlopen or similar runtime dynamic linking. If you compile the binaries

Right, but they don't do so using the default loader, it looks like they likely do it via dlopen or similar runtime dynamic linking. If you compile the binaries statically, it wouldn't effect that. I did a little math using a common GTK application as an example: nautilus. Using `ldd` and several shell utilities, if you were to statically link it it clocks in at around 80MB in binary size, but that would be worst case without LTO. FWIW I think graphics stacks are one of the few places where dynamic linking is still highly relevant.