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The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down — 2023 — Blog — GNU Guix (guix.gnu.org)
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Compare this to this 2020 blog post, which had the source binary at 60MiB

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/

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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

All good -- though I'm not sure what circular dependency could be resolved by using an older build.

Typically you do guix package --list-available=^mypackage$ and it lists all available versions, similar to conda

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