On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:18 AM Alessandro Barbieri <
lssndrbarbieri@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nothing should be statically linked, please stop spreading the disease.
>

On a source-based distribution, the thing that manages package
installations can break itself if it incorrectly installs a library that a
subsequent run of itself would dynamically link against.

There are plenty of valid use-cases for statically linked binaries. One
such use case is that the C++ standard doesn't acknowledge the existence of
dynamic linking in the first place. (It doesn't say it's invalid, just the
standard doesn't address the concept one way or another, implicitly
assuming static linking).