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

[Chris Waters <xtifr@dsp.net>]

Justin Wells <jread@semiotek.com> writes:

> Well Chris you obviously only run desktop systems [...]

Sheesh, talk about missing the point *completely*!

No, I've been known to run systems remotely.  And I usually try to
install sash on systems where I may *need* to do remote repairs.

That doesn't mean that I believe that statically linked binaries
should be STANDARD ON DEBIAN!  If you want to make some OPTIONAL
packages with statically linked binaries, great, go for it.  I might
even install them on some systems.  (Though probably not -- sash seems
to work just fine for most things.)  But I object to making a bunch of
statically linked binaries standard!

Is that so hard to understand?  This is NOT SOMETHING EVERYONE NEEDS!
So it should be OPTIONAL!  Am I speaking in words of sufficiently few
syllables yet?

cheers
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