Subject: Re: [bug#30572] [PATCH 1/7] gnu: bootstrap: Add trivial packages for bash, mkdir, tar, and xz.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:58:58 +0100

Chris Marusich <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (bootstrap-binary): New procedure.
>   (%bootstrap-bash, %bootstrap-mkdir, %bootstrap-tar, %bootstrap-xz):
>   Use it to create these new packages, and export them.

For ‘guix pack --bootstrap’, I believe we could avoid defining these
packages and simply use ‘%bootstrap-coreutils&co’ when ‘--bootstrap’ is
used.

Would that work for you?

I’m asking because we may not keep these 4 binaries around forever.

Thanks,
Ludo’.