On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 09:21:06 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'm not saying you can completely avoid the need for having some kind > of bootstrapping stage1. I'm just saying we should separate that need > from the issue of fully specifying dependencies, at least in an ideal > world where we're unconcerned with the effort of specifying > dependencies. I think you could partially solve this by having gentoo-built binaries of things that are needed for bootstrap shipped as sys-devel/gcc-bin, or similar. Then for dependency cycle breaking on "there is no bootstrap GCC" would fall back to pulling a binary GCC temporarily. After all, that's what the stages are isn't it? Aggregates of precompiled binaries in flying formation?
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