On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Travis Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Andreas Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a certain reason why pacman.static has been removed? I used it >> a lot when playing with glibc upgrades that often break the dynamic >> pacman. Is there any replacement? > > It also ended up being pretty useful when pacman started linking > against libarchive and libdownload (libfetch?), IIRC - of course, that > was compounded by a pacman issue (it didn't download its own deps when > upgrading itself) that has since been fixed. >
(replying to myself, I know) Looked up the related thread in the pacman-dev archives (since I knew there'd be one. :P) It was a short thread, but Dan makes a good point: "Yeah, I think it has always been one of those "I hope it works" type things. In any case, I think this is more appropriate for the pacman PKGBUILD if we truely want a static build, rather than in the pacman buildchain." Does the PKGBUILD do this? Should it?
