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Seeing this from the distro side, I agree with Evan.  A distro will
default to building all the glue up front, partly to ensure the user
can do whatever they want, and partially "because they can".  Even
though the glue is dynamically loaded, the distro will still pre-build
them all.  The only options you get are whether the resulting binaries
are packaged in one big package (likely) or split into one per glue
layer (unlikely, as they'd be conservative and want to make sure the
user isn't confused by a partial install).

Sometimes this can lead to problems, but this is how the distros do
it.  Given the size of a standard desktop install, I don't think this
is a "big" problem (heh) but that's how it works.

The case where support is added "on the fly" is a rarely used one -
I've seen it for codecs and that's about it, and even then all the
codes are pre-built and pre-packaged.