On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 12:37:51AM -0600, David Starner wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 10:20:20PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > gcc would be something that I would be willing to give special > > dispensation for - espescially since I know it tests itself on > > passes 2 and 3. Gcc is, therefore, part of the set of packages we > > call build essentials. > > > > However, this is not a dispensation that should be lightly > > given. Bootstrapping from scratch should be kept to a bare minimum of > > preinstalled packages -- the build essentials. > > What do you mean "dispensation"? You're trying to add a special rule > that programs can't build-depends themselves, which isn't found or implied > anywhere in the DFSG or Social Contract. In fact, it contradicts the Social > Contract, which says we will support our users. Horse puckey. This is a technical issue, and has nothing to do with the Social Contract. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | The software said it required Windows branden@ecn.purdue.edu | 3.1 or better, so I installed Linux. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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