Re: [GNU-linux-libre] RLSD GNU/Linux-libre 2.x

[Julian Marchant]

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> I see. But why would a tiny distro for old hardware do all the work
> (probably doubling the number of packages in the best case) needed
> to add the entire toolchain for development and building and
> compiling and configuring and all the dependencies (such as the
> scripting languages used by git and other tools)?

You're talking about how long it takes to compile. The way I interpret
the exception for distros like LibreWRT and LibreCMC is that it's for
systems going on devices that *can't* do self-hosting because they
don't have enough storage space. That's a very different situation.
Because of space constraints, it makes sense that something like
LibreWRT might be entirely unable to include the tools necessary to
self-host. But with your system, you're saying it's not practical to
compile the system on the machines you're intending to run it on
because of speed.

I'm not entirely sure, but I suppose the self-hosting requirement is
there to be future-proof:

- - If all but one libre distro stop being developed, and that one
distro isn't self-hosting, that would leave us with an OS that can't
be built without an OS that's either not completely libre or outdated.

- - If all of the distros that could be used to compile a
non-self-hosting distro are discontinued, we would be left unable to
compile that non-self-hosting distro without an OS that's either not
completely libre or outdated.

I'm not sure I agree that it's a problem, but I think that's the
reasoning.

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