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Re: Bootstrapping from binary blob shipped in the source package



* Florian Weimer:

> Some packages (notably compilers) avoid cyclic build dependencies by
> shipping some sort of pre-compiled blob in the source package.  This
> blob is then used to compile the package.
>
> Does this fullfil the requirement that packages in main must be built
> from source code?

Is there really no interest in this topic?


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