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bob prohaska   wrote:
>This is probably a dumb question, but I'll ask anyway:
>
>Is it possible to download source code for the kernel and user
>software and rebuild the command line part of raspbian on the Pi?
>
>I understand it's not done that way, I'm merely curious.

It is done that way - the Gentoo community have been doing it on the Pi
for almost 8 years now and on other platforms for a lot longer.

See https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Gordon

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