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> Requiring OCaml in the base operating system I'm not sure I understand this concern in the majority use cases. Why would you need an OCaml compiler installed

• messe 9y ago
  The base system is usually capable of compiling itself. If the source for your base system is stored on a remote git repository, and your implementation of git in your base system is written in OCaml, you're going to have to use an OCaml compiler to recompile it.
  • int_19h 9y ago
    But you don't need source control to compile the base. You only need it to retrieve the base sources - and even then only when you want to get the latest, since the installer comes with a tarball of /usr/src.