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Bonfire & Guix, a love story -- fishinthecalculator (fishinthecalculator.me)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31718711

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's worth the effort since it prevents numerous risks at the root, for sure it's not enough. I agree that bootstrapping wouldn't necessarily solve the XZ attack, but I think that should be solved by big tech paying FOSS maintainers enough or at all to prevent them from burning out.

About the BSD experience that looks like a big amount of work but definitely worth it, I'm sure they didn't ship many packages as Guix ships but I guess the projects have different goals and requirements.