Re: core-updates frozen!

[Marius Bakke]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> 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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