New comment by q66 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/34752#issuecomment-1003243315

Comment:
I am opposed to requiring a D compiler to bootstrap a system, and since gcc will now require a D compiler to enable gdc, there is no way you can get around that (you either need an existing D compiler, or download some kind of binary snapshot during the build, and both options are bad for bootstrapping a Void system)

The situation is already bad with Ada, and I don't want to add more of the same to it, except worse because unlike Ada, GDC does not cover all targets we cover

D is not an important enough language to warrant the extra burden, barely anything uses it, and you will be imposing this on the toolchain maintainers in the distro

If you want GDC, build it separately as its own template, use binary snapshots to bootstrap, but don't have it affect the system compiler

you can use the same strategy for bootstrapping ldc; cross-compile snapshot builds of ldc, make tarballs of them, upload them somewhere, then use them to bootstrap ldc (same thing is done for e.g. rust, go, ...)