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by dahfizz 1181 days ago
It does matter. If there is a problem with openssl, just the openssl maintainers have to push an update and everything on your system is secure.

If everything is statically linked, you need to wait for every maintainer of every single program on your system to rebuild and push an update. You're basically guaranteed that there is always _something_ missing important patches