Re: [dev] Suckless Linux distro

From: Martin Kopta <martin_AT_kopta.eu>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:34:31 +0100

Why has your mail header
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 01:41:44 +0200
?

Did I miss something?


On 05/29/2003 01:41 AM, Paul Onyschuk wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:03:57 +0100
> Manolo Martínez wrote:
>
>>
>> Genuinely curious: what's the suckless way to Linux then? Gentoo and
>> Gentoo only?
>>
>
> I'm planning to setup desktop on Bifrost Linux (small statically linked
> distro). First I need to figure out how to build static binaries (in
> simplest way possible) using Pkgsrc in chroot.
>
> Creating another package manager/port system is just pointless.
> Tracking dependencies let say for building usable X.org is huge waste
> of time - someone already did that. Pkgsrc has some quirks and
> downsides, but in the end it is just big bag of makefiles (bsd make to
> be specific).
>
> Why chroot? There aren't really any alternatives:
>
> (A) Polluting statically linked environment with libs and headers.
> (B) Cross compilation on Linux is the last thing I would voluntary do.
>
> On my personal wish-list (could be wish-list for year 2012) is creating
> non-GNU Linux distribution. What is the point? Something like "XXX's
> not GNU" would create hilarious acronym.
>
> Another thing I would like to investigate is multiple libc
> implementations usage. Currently main problem with non-glibc
> distribution is lack of proprietary software. Compiling everything
> against alternative libc implementation and providing glibc library let
> say for Flash, would bring some p0rn.
>
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