[Trisquel-users] Re : Installing Trisquel and gentoo on another drive, grub required?.

[lcerf]

You are right. ebuilds fetch source codes from the sites of their respective  
authors. As far as I know, Gentoo does not maintain patches to apply to those  
source codes. As a consequence, programs that raise subtle issues (such as  
those listed at  
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines  
) would probably be installed unaltered despite the settings I mentioned. If  
the problematic parts of the software can be disabled at compile/build time,  
then there may be a keyword to append to USE to do so. "deblob" plays this  
role for the kernel only.

As for verifiable builds, I do not see the necessity given that a user of  
Gentoo receives source codes (minus the blobs) that she compiles on her own  
system.