On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 00:32 +0100, Sam James wrote: > > > Yes, this is the part I find difficult too. The important > distinction here was *bootstrapping* (which I missed) > but I think at least we should make a list of packages generally considered > critical for bootstrap. >
What is a bootstrap package? There is some chicken-and-egg problem to be solved, but I don't think that we should be assuming that e.g. GNU grep is always present just because, during the base case of some recursive process, POSIX grep must be available temporarily. Anyway, https://bugs.gentoo.org/485356 awaits reopening if you make any progress on this.
