I mean.. that is absolutely something the bootstrap/reproducibility folks would flag as a problem. Heck, https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-boots

I mean.. that is absolutely something the bootstrap/reproducibility folks would flag as a problem. Heck, https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/ https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-... went to great extremes to bootstrap a C compiler through the all-important gcc 4.9 (which comes up constantly in these efforts because it was the last gcc that builds without a C++ compiler).