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On Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:35 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 10:14 PM Caveman Al Toraboran |
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> toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > are you referring to python's dependence on expat |
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> > and glibc? |
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> More like bash's dependence. Well, and in the case of glibc just |
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> about everything. When those break you're basically stuck recovering |
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> from a rescue disk. |
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or have sash somewhere around? |
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> Fortunately we haven't had glibc/gcc break ABI in quite a while, and |
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> preserved-rebuild covers a lot of the other issues. |
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> In any case, if you have a solution other than statically building |
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> half the system I'm sure patches will be welcome. FWIW Gentoo is |
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> about as hassle-free to use as it has ever been. It isn't debian |
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> stable, and it is unlikely to ever be that way... |
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why not? surely not as a 1st step, but it's not |
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like 50% of the system apps are sacred or |
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anything. |
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imo right approach is this: |
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1. make portage statically linked. enjoy the |
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removed python inconveniences. |
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2. if the bottleneck of inconvenience becomes |
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bash's use glibc (a great milestone to |
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celebrate btw), then we see how to fix that. |
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3. a component at a time, we eventually approach |
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linux utopia. |
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``step (1) is not a utopia yet'' is no excuse to |
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not start the journey of removing inconveniences. |
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