Rust-less bootstrapping

[DemiMarie]

Bootstrapping without Rust has been mentioned as a requirement on the Fedora development mailing list. However, not being able to verify signatures is a very bad idea for security. This discussion is about trying to resolve this conundrum.

[pmatilai]

I don't see an issue. For rpm, there must be a way to build it without Rust, this is just for sanity's sake. Those who insist on having signatures all the way through (good luck with that), just consider Rust to be a bootstrap requirement then. It's a choice, like any other.

[pmatilai]

Oh, and that's of course just the "do nothing" scenario. We certainly want to keep the crypto provider build-time switchable, so if somebody wants to take, say, the existing parser and run with it, they're welcome to do so. I only really care about getting it out of my hair.