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disk is cheap and it's easier to test exact versions of dependencies. As a user I'd rather not have all my non OS stuff mixed up.
From my understanding, unless a shared library is used only by one process at a time, static linking can increase memory usage by multiplying the memory footprint of that library's code segment. So it is not only about disk space.
But I suppose for an increasing number of modern applications, data and heap is much larger than that (though I am not particularly a fan ...)
The gain in RAM are not even guaranteed. See my other comment
Look at how bloated android applications are
I misread disk as dick