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by troutwine 5731 days ago
Quite true. I suppose in my post I really was assuming starting off from brass tacks, cross compiling from a larger system. You are, of course, correct: if the system must be able to bootstrap itself a more expansive base is needed.

I also neglected to mention any sort of shell. Dash, I believe, is POSIX compliant and rather tiny.