Re: Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:

> Let me give an even shorter-term solution: maybe there is a way to mark
> things as risky from a trust perspective when it comes to bootstrapping?
> Maybe we could do something like:
>
>   (define-public ghc
>     (package
>       (name "ghc")
>       (version "7.10.2")
>       ;; [... bla bla ...]
>       (properties '(("bootstrap-untrusted" #t)))))

Why not, but what would be the correspond warning, and the expected
effect?

On one hand, a warning might annoy people since there’s nothing they can
do; on the other hand, it can help raise awareness.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.