Wednesday, October 02, 2013

[uelgzizv] Minimal packages to compile the rest

Modify a Linux distribution, say, Debian, to only install a minimal system of binary packages, then compile the rest of the packages from source packages (apt-get source).

Work on minimizing the minimal system.  Inspired by Reproducible Builds, which in turn has recently been brought to the forefront in needing to protect against the NSA compromising a central build server.

Gentoo does this, but we would like something more convenient, that acts like Debian except takes longer (perhaps a lot longer) to install packages.

Or upgrade packages.

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