Re: Bootstrapping from binary blob shipped in the source package

2008-07-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* 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

Re: Bootstrapping from binary blob shipped in the source package

2008-07-19 Thread Ben Finney
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * 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