On 2018-03-27 22:13, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: > > But I thought [core] was supposed to be self-contained, or it only used to be? > Not sure about the history here, but given the fact that most systems are bootstrapped from e.g. a cross-compiler, I don't think there's any real system that's self-contained these days. (That's not to say that it doesn't matter *at all* what's required, but it makes a lot of sense to separate "build system" dependencies from the runtime dependencies.) Cheers,
