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Yes, but presumably you're running far fewer docker images than you have binaries that would be affected if you statically compiled everything. For example, I assume in a statically compiled system, an update to zlib will likely affect a lot more packages than docker images you are running (on a server I admin, there's 3 binaries in /bin that link to zlib, and 374 binaries in /usr/bin, which will condense down to some smaller, but still likely quite large set of OS packages). It's easier in a dynamically linked system, where you can just replace the library, but it's not that much better for the sysadmin, as if you want to make sure you are running the new code, you need to identify any running programs that have linked to zlib and restart them, as they still have the old code resident in memory.



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