Re: how to make Debian less fragile (long and philosophical)
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> I _do_ think we should provide some static packages for recovery purposes
> for those folks like yourself who feel more comfortable with that sort of
> "backup system", but I don't think we should redesign the distribution to
> be more UNIX like in this regard.
Out of curiosity, does anybody know of any utilities that can convert
executables from dynamically-linked to statically-linked without
recompiling? It's theoretically possible, because the loader has to
retrieve the libraries, do fixups, etc., anyway.
I was thinking that this might be a nice way to have your cake and eat it
too. If /bin and /sbin were mirrored into a statically-linked copy, and
root's shell was the statically-linked version, then statically-linked
copies of system binaries can be maintained automatically.
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