[jeroenhd]

What is the alternative here? To provide a python.so file with all possible binary Python packages statically linked into it? You'd need to update it every hour to include all the bugfixes in every native library yanked in! To recompile Python itself every time you install a package? Even with a compiler cache you'd have the Gentoo experience of waiting for ages every time you try to use the package manager.

Dynamic linking solves a real problem, especially in this space. It comes with new problems of its own but so does the alternative.