[mforney]

> Statically linking all the OS utilities to their dependency libraries, over and over again? Dear god that sounds awful.

Just curious, why does that sound awful to you? Are you worried that it will take a long time to relink the binaries? The oasis build system is incremental, so updates to a library only involve relinking dependent binaries, which is quite fast. Even a full rebuild from scratch only takes a few minutes (assuming you have the sources downloaded already).

If it's just the idea of relinking all the dependencies over and over again, note that with dynamic linking you do this at runtime every time you execute a binary.