[duped]

Which is another reason why dependencies shouldn't be shared

[rwmj]

Your solution is multiple copies of libcurl all over the place, all compiled in different ways, probably different versions, and that's supposed to be more secure and maintainable?

[duped]

More secure: not more, but equally. More maintainable: infinitely. This is how software is being built today in secure environments anyway, since you need to own the supply chain.

Dependencies are not actually shared that often. Here's a good post about it: https://drewdevault.com/dynlib