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Re:Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement? by faddat on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:02AM (#12936826)
Not certain I could implement.

Certain I'd like to talk with you about your strategy and see if we can get any closer than you did the past three times.

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Re:Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement? by Sir_Cmpwn on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:08AM (#12936845)
This is my current best effort: https://gogs.sr.ht/SirCmpwn/sconix

I was trying to build a clean static system I could use as a bootstrap to build clean packages from. Ran into trouble with things like coreutils, util-linux, and fakeroot. Making things harder is that I'm building everything against musl libc because glibc doesn't handle static linking well (and also because I don't like glibc).

I'm thinking a better strategy might be to use some other host system with pacman to build a base system of clean static packages, then use pacstrap to get this system up and running.

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