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While we're on the topic: work on minimal-bootstrap in #nixpkgs has actually been picked up again since this thesis was written (October 2025).

Not only that but, as of a few hours ago, the PR implementing the last step of hooking it up to become the actual bootstrap stdenv in Nixpkgs has been merged!

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479322

#fullsourcebootstrap #reproduciblebuilds #stage0 #minimalbootstrap #bootstrappablebuilds

minimal-bootstrap: Hook up with stdenv by Gskartwii · Pull Request #479322 · NixOS/nixpkgs

This PR builds upon #459002 to bootstrap x86_64-linux and i686-linux glibc and musl stdenvs from the minimal hex0 seed. Things done Built on platform: x86_64-linux (glibc and musl) i686-linux ...

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