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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] gnuconfig.eclass: use BDEPEND, BROOT where available (drop support for EAPI <4)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 00:19:24
Message-Id: 1046C1BA-A339-4486-B004-55559A0811A5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] gnuconfig.eclass: use BDEPEND, BROOT where available (drop support for EAPI <4) by Michael Orlitzky
1 > On 10 Apr 2021, at 01:13, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 00:32 +0100, Sam James wrote:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >> Yes, this is the part I find difficult too. The important
7 >> distinction here was *bootstrapping* (which I missed)
8 >> but I think at least we should make a list of packages generally considered
9 >> critical for bootstrap.
10 >>
11 >
12 > What is a bootstrap package?
13 >
14 > There is some chicken-and-egg problem to be solved, but I don't think
15 > that we should be assuming that e.g. GNU grep is always present just
16 > because, during the base case of some recursive process, POSIX grep
17 > must be available temporarily.
18 >
19 > Anyway, https://bugs.gentoo.org/485356 awaits reopening if you make any
20 > progress on this.
21 >
22
23 Oh, I agree completely. CCed myself on the bug and added to the list
24 to think about/work on.
25
26 I’m pleased a bug existed in the past! I don’t agree with it being closed though:
27 documentation issues can exist without a patch existing to fix them yet, right?

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