Hi Luca,

On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 04:16:22PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> Forgive the naive question, but aren't build profiles and stages
> supposed to be used in these cases, to help with bootstrapping? Eg: do
> a stage1 build with reduced features/dependencies, then rebuild
> everything again. Is my understanding wrong?

Yes, that's the idea. However profiles are not a silver bullet and they
don't magically solve all of your problems. A stage1 build of util-linux
still produces a libmount-dev that Depends on libcryptsetup-dev. How do
you envision to solve this?

Helmut

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