[arch-general] Link against system libs

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:21:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:07:12 +0200, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:
>>You don't appear to follow arch-dev-public [0] very closely, do you.  
>
>This was mentioned a few days back on this mailing list, too.
>What's your point?
>
>>https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2017-March/028752.html  
>
>To get access to the latest official PKGBUILDS ABS works and it could
>be installed from Extra. There's no need to build something from AUR.
>
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep pkgver /var/abs/core/linux/PKGBUILD |
>head -1 pkgver=4.10.8
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ grep pkgrel /var/abs/core/linux/PKGBUILD |
>head -1 pkgrel=1
>[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si linux | grep Version
>Version         : 4.10.8-1

I forgot the important date.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si linux | grep Build\ Date
Build Date      : Fri 31 Mar 2017 04:51:56 PM CEST

>Again, I'm not against asp, but why not simply installing ABS from
>extra at the moment, instead of asp from AUR?
>
>I don't get your point. Why do you make such a big off-topic discussion
>out of it?