June Newspost

posted on 2020-06-17

-This will be an active month for Carbs as major changes to the base and the -package manager will be coming up. -

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Statically linking the base

-For the past couple of weeks I have been trying to simplify the base and -statically link the core (mostly binaries rather than libraries). I usually see -some people extremely opposed to static linking as I also see the opposite on -people. -

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-I believe that binaries on the core should always be linked statically. This -ensures that an SONAME bump to libObscure.so will not break the core -functionality of your system, forcing you to use external resources to recover -from such an issue. As long as you can compile, use core utilities, edit text, -and access the web, you can solve any given issue on your system. -

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-However, I don't think that removing shared libraries is sensible either. Not -every piece of software out there is good quality enough to be statically -linked. -

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Major changes on the core repository

-There have been drastic changes to the core repository and the base rootfs this -month (with more on the way). Right now changes are as follows. -

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Removed from Core

git
libressl
grub
bison
dhcpcd
ubase

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Added to Core

bearssl, as a libressl replacement
byacc, as a bison replacement

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Statically linked

kiss
neatvi
mandoc
byacc
m4
e2fsprogs
make
pkgconf
sbase
libnl
wpa_supplicant
bearssl

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Making the wiki available offline

-Soon, all documentation regarding Carbs Linux will be avaialable to be installed -from the core repository in a carbs-docs package along with its own document -crawler. Currently, the documentation regarding the installation process is a -little outdated which will also receive some important updates. -

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ISO image for Carbs

-I am thinking of releasing an ISO image in order to provide a standardized -environment for installation along with installation helper tools in the spirit -of arch-install-scripts. Let's see how that's going to play out. -