Re: Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Let me give an even shorter-term solution: maybe there is a way to mark
>> things as risky from a trust perspective when it comes to bootstrapping?
>> Maybe we could do something like:
>>
>>   (define-public ghc
>>     (package
>>       (name "ghc")
>>       (version "7.10.2")
>>       ;; [... bla bla ...]
>>       (properties '(("bootstrap-untrusted" #t)))))
>
> Why not, but what would be the correspond warning, and the expected
> effect?

A warning, or maybe even also a:

  guix package -i foo --only-reproducible

which could error?

> On one hand, a warning might annoy people since there’s nothing they can
> do; on the other hand, it can help raise awareness.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ludo’.