On Sat, Nov 9, 2019, 2:32 PM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Andreas Enge: > > > Now, some musing, which motivated me to change the subject line into > > a new thread: I am wondering how functional a system is that > > contains only GNU packages? It will lack a graphical environment, > > but with grub, hurd, glibc and all other low level projects and the > > toolchain, emacs, it looks to me as if we still have a functional > > system. Or am I missing something? > > Is glibc purely GNU? It borrows code from a variety of sources and > was not written completely from scratch. (Although there are many > parts which are unique to glibc, too.) > > What about GNU tar? It started out as pdtar. > GCC shares a lot of libraries and components with other projects which are not necessarily GNU. --joel > >
