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2017-11-10 15:18:23 +0200 commented answer How to specify existing software when building from source?

Landed on this post because I would have been interested into packaging Sage for Mageia Linux. But that's currently impossible due to this reason, far too much bundled packages in the source code :(

If this can be of some motivations for the developers to move towards dynamic linking, this little summary from Fedora linux is very well made and explains the issues which prevent these kind of packages to be distributed in most distro:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bundled_Libraries?rd=Packaging:Bundled_Libraries

Cheers, chris.