On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [2013-10-26 09:39:21 +0200] Carsten Mattner: >> So that means Arch Linux has always been unique in that regard >> and it has been by lucky accidence static linking of libs installed >> by pacman worked? > > Yes. > >> If that's the case this should be documented the same way other >> distros (suckless) do not support dynamic linking of the provided >> packages don't you think? > > It's obvious that static libs aren't supported by distros that ship > none, don't you think? Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this should be stated clearly on archlinux.org or at least the wikipedia article.