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