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Subject: Re: Idea: static builds
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:03:04PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just have an idea that may be useful: static port builds. This can
> help produce packages without any depends, which may be useful
> sometimes.

What I'd like to see first is some quantitative research on the
benefits of it. Static builds are a lot more headache than one
could imagine from a number points of view.