[ljm]

This guy just discovered static linking.

May he enjoy an eternal debate about static and dynamic linking, strong types and duck types, tabs and spaces, vim and emacs, less and more, and Kickers and Rockport.

[Crestwave]

Static linking packs the dependencies into the executable. This is basically dynamic vendoring.

[mghackerlady]

there's a difference between static linking and downloading your dependencies over the net

[ljm]

What dependencies, these days, are not downloaded over the net?

If someone put this app on CDs and gave them out at a supermarket, well, it worked for AOL 30 years back but not now.

[gbin]

You don't want to add untrusted binary download sources in your Linux system. Your distrib is already doing that. This is not strictly about "downloads from the internet" of course