From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2007-09-22 13:56:28
Hello Glenn,
* On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:56:00AM -0500 Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 14:49, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> I'm sure it wasn't meant personally, my message certainly wasn't. I
> found it frustrating that it was so much more difficult to get a clean
> compile under Ubuntu than it was under openSUSE, and that's a complaint
> about Linux in general. And I think Jeremy's point is well taken;
> Linux distros should install the compiler toolchain by default.
Well, this depends. I have machines where I want a minimalistic system,
because these machines are very resource constrained. Here, Debian based
systems are rather good, as they do not add so much overhead. I don't
think even Gentoo is better in this respect, because it needs the
compiler in order to compile everything. Even LFS might not be the best
solution here, either.
I think the problem here is more that the documentation is lacking that
information. Although, when I last installed Debian systems (Woody 3.0,
Sarge 3.1), I had the option to choose if I want the compilers or not.
Regards,
Spiro.
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