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<OriansJ>no comments, problems, suggestions or anything else?
<OriansJ>perhaps it is me being stubborn but I think guixsd could use an install iso that fits on a 50MB 60mm mini-cd; while M2-Planet, mescc-tools and a POSIX should be able to fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk
<OriansJ>I reallly need to fix mescc-tool's guix build script
<OriansJ> https://paste.debian.net/1144360/
<OriansJ>which raises teh question of which sha256 tool guix exposes in build environment by default
<Hagfish>"... a POSIX should be able to fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk"
<Hagfish>would it come with some sort of network stack that could download the remaining source?
<OriansJ>Hagfish: probably something minimal like gopher
<Hagfish>yeah, i read a thread on hackernews about how to bootstrap an OS / network client, and they recommended gopher
<OriansJ>now the question is that actually good advice. as most bootstrapping advice turns out to be absolute garbage
<OriansJ>equal to informing Windows users to just "install gentoo"
<OriansJ>ok looks like the default guix build environent doesn't support which
<Hagfish>i think the bootstrap question was not designed to be practical, more philosophical (the question had many different answers depending on how you interpreted it)
<OriansJ>Hagfish: but wouldn't it be a practical question here? as that is exactly what we are trying to achieve.
<fossy>gopher is a great idea, ngl
<fossy>I maintain one of the foremost gopher servers
<fossy>gophernicus
<fossy>FWIW I am packaging rust bootstrap in void linux
<fossy>and will package everything down to tcc soon
<fossy>convincing them to accept will be the hard part
<fossy>but we have a lot of work to do before network
<fossy>mes c library has 0 networking support
<fossy>but let's just keep chugging on, coding and scripting
<fossy>I will be also targeting alpine Linux to bring a bootstrap to them