Comment by stefano

I have 971 binaries in /usr/bin alone. If they were 100mb each, I'd be looking at 94GB of space on a 250GB laptop ssd. 94GB that I'd have to re-download every time there's a security patch to a common library (e.g. libc). I'll keep living in the past and use shared libraries until download speeds and disk space increase by a couple orders of magnitude.