On 3 August 2012 12:29, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:31:06 -0400 Jack Silver <jacksilver045@gmail.com> wrote:
To exchange information I want to let know this list that I have filled a feature request form to ask for a statically builded pacman.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30993
Comments welcome in the bug manager.
جاك الفضة
Well, bugtracker is not a place for comments, it's for solutions.
Anyway... statically compiling things is not a way of avoiding trouble, at least not in a self-sustained fashion. So, if you propose to have pacman in [core] statically compiled against all needed libraries, I would be against that as the package will be an unmaintainable mess. That might work for a rescue (read embedded-like system with ulibc) system, but probably booting from a live media is much easier and more robust.
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Meh it does have it's advantages. I've screwed up my system to a point where I can't use pacman (because the libraries it depends on have gone wild). Having a staticly compiled pacman would allow for me to use it no matter what. LiveCD is not always easier.... Calvin