[arch-general] Build pacman statically

[Calvin Morrison]

On 3 August 2012 12:29, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:31:06 -0400
> Jack Silver <jacksilver045 at 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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> Leonid Isaev
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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