On 08/01/16 05:54, Alastair Hughes wrote:

pacman can obviously be built statically, so I've probably missed the point; why is FS#30993 still open? What functionality is broken (if any) in the static version? I haven't found anything yet, but...

History lesson! When building pacman, a "pacman-static" binary was created. In Arch, it was somewhat static... This bug was opened not long after we stopped building that. A