Re: core recovery tools, apt-get, and dpkg should be static

[cwitty@newtonlabs.com (Carl R. Witty)]

Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> writes:

> HOW TO MAKE DEBIAN LESS FRAGILE:
>  
> All the core system tools, including the package manager (apt_get 
> and dpkg) should be available as static binaries rather than dynamic
> executables. 
...
> I previously raised this issue in the devel list, and met with various
> responses. Here are refutations of many of the common counter-arguments:

If the standard system binaries are statically linked, then you can't
use fakeroot to build packages any more.

Carl Witty
cwitty@newtonlabs.com