>Imagine distros swapping out the libraries you've actually tested out your code with with their libraries for "security fixes" or whatever the reason. That cau

>Imagine distros swapping out the libraries you've actually tested out your code with with their libraries for "security fixes" or whatever the reason. That causes more problems than it fixes. I don't believe that it causes more problems than it fixes. It's just that you didn't notice the problems being silently fixed! There are issues related to different distros packaging different versions of libraries. But that's just an issue with trying to support different distros and/or their updates. There are tradeoffs with everything. Dynamic linking is more appropriate for things that are part of a distro, because it creates less turnover of packages when things update.