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> On 10 Apr 2021, at 01:13, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 00:32 +0100, Sam James wrote: |
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>> Yes, this is the part I find difficult too. The important |
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>> distinction here was *bootstrapping* (which I missed) |
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>> but I think at least we should make a list of packages generally considered |
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>> critical for bootstrap. |
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> What is a bootstrap package? |
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> There is some chicken-and-egg problem to be solved, but I don't think |
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> that we should be assuming that e.g. GNU grep is always present just |
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> because, during the base case of some recursive process, POSIX grep |
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> must be available temporarily. |
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> Anyway, https://bugs.gentoo.org/485356 awaits reopening if you make any |
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> progress on this. |
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Oh, I agree completely. CCed myself on the bug and added to the list |
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to think about/work on. |
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I’m pleased a bug existed in the past! I don’t agree with it being closed though: |
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documentation issues can exist without a patch existing to fix them yet, right? |