I wasn't arguing against dynamic linking, but the parent poster's fervor at attacking its critics, and their poor example of a supposedly great thing it facilit

I wasn't arguing against dynamic linking, but the parent poster's fervor at attacking its critics, and their poor example of a supposedly great thing it facilitated. I'm not sure if you can blame glibc on bazaar practices. musl and glibc both have similar, BFDL-driven development models (well, glibc did until Drepper got booted, at least) yet musl has far better curation and attentiveness than glibc. PAM and NSS have always been controversial (though PAM particularly) and better ways have been both developed and proposed.