Comment by duped
4 hours ago
Sure but that's a compiler bootstrapping problem. It doesn't answer the question: why do you need to bootstrap the toolchain to build the distro? You can reuse a trusted toolchain that's been safely bootstrapped .
4 hours ago
Sure but that's a compiler bootstrapping problem. It doesn't answer the question: why do you need to bootstrap the toolchain to build the distro? You can reuse a trusted toolchain that's been safely bootstrapped .
Because no other trusted toolchains exist under a threat model that trusts no single person or computer. We -are- the trusted toolchain.