From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:23:56 +0100 Message-ID: <87fuvitrab.fsf@gnu.org> References: <61b3756456285d436389fbf9e5ec61f1@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiP6B-0007jQ-Nv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:24:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aiP66-0001YQ-PH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:24:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <61b3756456285d436389fbf9e5ec61f1@openmailbox.org> (rain1@openmailbox.org's message of "Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:43:30 +0000") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: rain1@openmailbox.org Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org rain1@openmailbox.org skribis: > I would like to propose one idea to manage this: What about adding a > field to the system configuration for a list of 'trusted-binaries'? To me it sounds like sidestepping the issue. We=E2=80=99d want the whole distro to be trustworthy. Ludo=E2=80=99.