> Your only argument seems to be that these skillful programmers, that
> presumably have advanced math degrees if they're programming scientific
> number crunching apps, and can figure out how to statically compile
> their app, are too retarded to write a trivial one line wrapper script,
> run ldd on their app, and tar up their app with the libs it needs.
Of course they can, but it is less simple, why do something complicated
when something simple is available?
because the simple case breaks.
Now the goal then should maybe be "make packaging self contained apps as
easy as sticking -static on cflags"....