On: Suckless.org: software that sucks less

[vlovich123]

And the main advantage of doing all that work vs statically linking is? Don’t get me wrong - dynamically linking for dev builds makes a lot of sense to cut down on relink times. But I just don’t see it for distribution since doing that RPath work reduces the main argument for dynamic linking (i.e. the OS can patch the vulnerability for all installed packages without waiting for each to release).

[Brian_K_White → vlovich123]

They didn't claim it was better than static. That doesn't make it worse than static either. They are two different answers for two different problems.

It's simply that when you do want external but bundled neighboring libs, there is a good way to do it.