I don&#x27;t have to bootstrap anything that my distro is already shipping. If I&#x27;m using GCC, my .spec file has a BuildRequires tag that tells rpmbuild to make sure an acceptable version is present (from my RPM mirror).<p>If I&#x27;m using some obscure tool that my distro doesn&#x27;t package, that&#x27;s when I mirror the version I&#x27;m using, and build my own RPM from source if it needs to be deployed to prod servers rather than merely run from rpmbuild.