Hi,
a colleague of mine is rather skeptic towards bootstrapping and
reproducible-builds.
E.g. he wrote
https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/html/2021/05/12/compiler_bootstrapping_can_we_trust_rust.html
and the effect can also be seen in his packaging such as
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/rust1.65
that ships with two gigabytes of bootstrap compiler binaries for various
architectures instead of using our existing rust packages of version N-1
"because compilation takes twice as long".
He also once pointed me to
https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2020/07/you-dont-need-reproducible-builds.html
In the end, it would be useful to collect some well-worded /
well-thought counter-arguments on r-b.o (if we don't have that already)
https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/ could provide some input.
Any thoughts and/or volunteers?
Ciao
Bernhard M.
