[arch-general] Build pacman statically

[Sander Jansen]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM, 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.

Why would it be a unmaintainable mess?