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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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