Gentoo desktop?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:50:42PM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> The initial compiler for a Gentoo stage1 install is on the CD,
> distributed via the gentoo site (or torrent), and the hash matches
> what they say it should be.  That's trust.  However, it is not
> unlikely that the compiler has been trojaned.  Every resources can be
> hacked with adequate resources applied to such an effort of course...

So if you trust a binary compiler from gentoo based on a hash, why
would't you trust everything else as binary if it matches the hash from
gentoo (if they actually provided such things)?

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