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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:01:21 +0200
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+# Rationales for Exclusion
+
+For standards/software which would be reasonable in a base system or even expected,
+but won't be there in the case of bootstrap-initrd.
+
+## OpenPGP
+
+Quite involved to implement due to it's packets structure and usage of many algorithms instead of few hand picked ones.
+And when it comes to currently available implementations:
+
+- GnuPG is way too big and has too many dependencies
+- The verify-only version of NetPGP could be interesting but it's latest "versions" are just shoved as-is in pkgsrc repo instead of a tarball, and it still relies on a pre-made binary pubring file
+- Sequoia is in Rust, no way
+
+Alternatives:
+- ssh signatures: Still many different algorithms but the format is much simpler
+- signify signatures: Very simple, and different implementations to choose from that are appropriate for bootstrap-initrd
+
+## Programing Languages
+
+Perl, Python, … require archeology into ancient versions to bootstrap from full source.
+
+As demonstrated by live-bootstrap: <https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/parts.rst>
+
+Alternatives:
+- POSIX Shell :)
+- Lua: Included in extras
+- JavaScript: Possible thanks to QuickJS but the System APIs do not match NodeJS/Deno/…
+- execline: Effectively just shell but simpler
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## Rationales
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+Moved to RATIONALES.md and RATIONALES-Exclusion.md
## Extras
