On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bootstrapping is an inherently curious problem. Most systems are built > upon the systems they themselves build, but getting to that > self-hosting state always requires some unclean solution.
Yup, I never viewed getting rid of @system as a solution to the bootstrapping problem. You could even have an @stage3 set for convenience, or a meta-virtual to create one, using a fully functioning Gentoo system. I also wasn't suggesting we have empty stage3s or anything like that. By all means supply a default collection of packages, and feel free to include openssh in that collection. However, those default packages would be nothing more than a starting point and users could uninstall them at will. Perhaps portage would have some set it would offer a warning before uninstalling (either a hardcoded list like @system, or use logic like any dep of portage or gcc). Rich
