If you are a programmer, the guy behind the Linux kernel isn’t a fan of shared libraries (please click on the link to read the whole missive):
Subject: Re: Very slow clang kernel config ..
Side note: I really wish Fedora stopped doing that.
Shared libraries are not a good thing in general. They add a lot of overhead in this case, but more importantly they also add lots of unnecessary dependencies and complexity, and almost no shared libraries are actually version-safe, so it adds absolutely zero upside.
Shared libraries are not a good thing in general. They add a lot of overhead in this case, but more importantly they also add lots of unnecessary dependencies and complexity, and almost no shared libraries are actually version-safe, so it adds absolutely zero upside.