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The Guix (almost) full-source bootstrap
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The Guix (almost) full-source bootstrap
[Posted May 2, 2023 by corbet]
The Guix project ("a transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system") has announced a milestone toward its goal of bootstrapping an entire distribution from source:
If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of more than 22,000 nodes rooted in a 357-byte program—something that had never been achieved, to our knowledge, since the birth of Unix.
This is an interesting exercise, but should also be a defense against "trusting trust" attacks. (Thanks to Ludovic Courtès and Andy Tai).
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