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Building Gentoo with USE=static might be a good way to experiment without have to build an entire new distribution. Try one with the flag, one without, do the

by prewett 13y ago

Building Gentoo with USE=static might be a good way to experiment without have to build an entire new distribution. Try one with the flag, one without, do the same operations in each and watch the memory usage and time to completion.

benjamincburns 13y ago
Took the words right out of my mouth. Though I think to do this well you'd need to go old school and do a fully bootstrapped (formerly "stage 1") install.
default_name 13y ago
It's not that easy. Many libraries can't be statically linked, some programs will break if it will be statically linked. It is impossible to link statically with glibc. Even if it would be possible it's pointless. You will need another lean libc, like musl. Than go figure list of bugs found by musl: http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Bugs_found_by_musl http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Bugs_found_by_musl
- justincormack 13y ago
  There is an experimental Musl gentoo stage I think now.