Well, consider GUI libraries like Qt, GTK or Cocoa. Cocoa in particular does not have any concept of a user modifyable "theme" or "style". However, it changes its looks with OS upgrades and all GUI applications change with it.
With static linking, that would clearly not happen.
Also, these libraries/frameworks are not exactly small, not even for todays hard drives, so the de-duplication does make some sense (and that is not factoring in the smaller size of SSDs). That said, I guess you could make this into an argument for filesystem level deduplication instead of dynamic linking.
With static linking, that would clearly not happen.
Also, these libraries/frameworks are not exactly small, not even for todays hard drives, so the de-duplication does make some sense (and that is not factoring in the smaller size of SSDs). That said, I guess you could make this into an argument for filesystem level deduplication instead of dynamic linking.