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by prodigal_erik 3793 days ago
I don't have to bootstrap anything that my distro is already shipping. If I'm using GCC, my .spec file has a BuildRequires tag that tells rpmbuild to make sure an acceptable version is present (from my RPM mirror).

If I'm using some obscure tool that my distro doesn't package, that's when I mirror the version I'm using, and build my own RPM from source if it needs to be deployed to prod servers rather than merely run from rpmbuild.