From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Wingo Subject: Re: rust work in progress conflicts Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 11:15:04 +0200 Message-ID: <8737pvfsyv.fsf@igalia.com> References: <20160325184540.4e02cb2d@scratchpost.org> <87k2kq6wma.fsf@grrlz.net> <87oa8mt8lh.fsf@gmail.com> <87lh3obpaz.fsf@gnu.org> <1462459586.3181019.599022233.5F377A74@webmail.messagingengine.com> <878tznftew.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56215) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aybrA-0004iY-4i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 05:15:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aybqy-0004dh-MD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 05:15:26 -0400 Received: from pb-sasl1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.66]:63595 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aybqx-0004Z6-DK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 May 2016 05:15:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878tznftew.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 06 May 2016 11:05:27 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Griffin Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri 06 May 2016 11:05, Andy Wingo writes: > But given that even OCaml includes a binary blob (!), I don't think that > we can practically require bootstrapped language implementations to > bootstrap all the way. To clarify! Obviously it would be better from a reproducibility POV if we had fewer root binary blobs. I don't mean to argue against that. Just that the tradeoff between "include OCaml and its world" and "always bootstrap only from GCC" in the short term leans towards inclusion rather than purity. Just my POV though. A