> It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but > bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who > would want or need static libraries in this day and age, but maybe I'm > missing something obvious. zsh-static needs a static libc and ncurses sash needs a static libc and zlib busybox-static needs a static libc dpkg needs a static zlib Not sure what else.