Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> writes: >> For those unaware, this means that the set of trusted binaries at the >> root of the package graph from which everything else derives is only 60 >> MiB (on i686 and x86_64). The set no longer includes GCC, binutils, or >> glibc! > >> For more information, see jannekes blog post: >> >> https://www.joyofsource.com/guix-reduces-bootstrap-seed-by-50.html > > For the record...it's even better: The GCC, binutils and glibc > removal mentioned above is already in master; so our next release will > bootstrap from ~135MB like blog post mentions! > > The Core-updates bootstrap (code named "Scheme-only bootstrap") removes > > Awk, Bash, the GNU Core Utilities, Grep, Gzip, Sed, and Tar. > > and replaces them with Gash and Gash-Utils!
Oh my, that's just incredible, I did not think we were there already! Thanks for the update. :-)
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