> For starters, it's a show-stopper as a bootstrapping dependency for something
> as early in that chain as rpm.
(Threading this) do you have a link to these discussions? There's a *ton* of
work on bootstrapping Rust (and systems in general) on self-hosting
OSes/distributions. The [GUIX
one](https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/)
is pretty cool. And for sure Rust gets handled as part of that, it's well
documented and understood. I get that people who want to do something similar
for self-hosting rpm-based systems would want to build rpm pretty early and
switch over a bootstrap process to using it, but I'd imagine there's quite a
bit of stuff that needs to be done using not-RPM before that that maintaining
such a system would be quite close to needing to maintain two different build
systems anyways, and having Rust in that set in addition to other compilers and
toolchains that are already needed seems like not a large addition.
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