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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

In general, the bootstrap relies on a binary package of the previous version. This is unacceptable for an otherwise source-only, self-contained distribution like the NetBSD sources.

But how is C different in this regard?