Unbundling external dependencies

[selfisekai]

The pkg directory ships build scripts for multiple third party dependencies. There should be an option available to use distro-provided versions, in line with distro requirements such as this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies

[mitchellh]

We do: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/PACKAGING.md

Unless I'm misunderstanding. The build scripts are only used for local builds for ease of development. But we've documented how to use full dynamic linking specifically for packaging as you noted.

[selfisekai]

Ok, I do see now that the -fsys= options are there, but that's not mentioned in the file you linked

[mitchellh]

The --system flag forces this for all packages to ensure an offline build (which is mentioned).