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That’s one reason. Another is NSS:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Name-Servi...

It’s a mechanism in glibc for loading dynamic libraries at runtime (based on a config file) to handle DNS and some other things. Anything statically linked can’t support this, which can cause issues with some setups.




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