[capitol_]

This is why I really like Debians policy of being self-contained, that everything in Debian is built from sources that are in the Debian system.

It takes a lot more effort to package stuff, since you can't just download your dependencies from the internet. But you also create something that isn't as ephemeral.

[trealira]

Since you mention it, I recall that it's the same thing in OpenBSD: their policy is "base builds base."