Basically even though theres a HUGE overhead when it comes to distributing static packages via apt, it can save time, bandwidth and cpu resources because.. yeah, I mean you’re only downloading one or two packages vs downloading up to 20 sometimes 700 packages at a time. This saves resources !! But yeah, there is a huge overhead when it comes to downloading statically packages, along with running the binaries.. along with redownloading if it fails.
i figure if OpenOffice, for example, has 700 dependencies, and instead of 700 different processes dedicated to downloading, a single process dedicated to downloading a large binary with all the dependencies compiled directly into the binary could in fact save bandwidth and possibly network resources, along with local and remote resources
I figure 80mb of a static package is just as good as 50mb of shared packages, maybe even more..