GNU Developer Collection [LSARC/2008/776 FastTrack timeout 01/07/2009]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
> George Vasick writes:
> > Actually, we are proposing to to install binutils 2.19 in 
> > /usr/compilers/binutils219.  It will be a separate package and not 
> > contained in /usr/compilers/gcc432.
> 
> Again, my questions about the reasons for that haven't been answered yet:
> 
> * Why /usr/compilers at all?  We don't have /usr/webservers or
>   /usr/databases.

I object to /usr/compilers also.  Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers
instead?

> > > I don't think it would be too hard, and having separate packages for
> > > different languages seems to match what Linux distributions do.
> > 
> > The current packages do seem overly large, about 135 MB on x86.  We 
> > propose to keep it a single package.
> 
> I suppose you mean `don't seem' here?  I find this unfortunate, since it
> neither matches Sun Studio practice (which has separate patches for
> different languages and runtime libraries) nor (as I mentioned) Linux
> practice.

The runtime libraries definitely need to be packaged separately from
compile time tools.  Whether or not to package different frontends
separately is not important to me.

Nico
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