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Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95



I demand that Joe Wreschnig may or may not have written...

> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:48, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>>> You asked for gcc-2.95. You got gcc-2.95. Whatever else you got should be
>>> of no consequence whatsoever.
>> It's this kind of attitude that drives people to gentoo.

> Let them go. IMO it's far better to install more than is necessary, but
> always get the desired functionality, than install less than is desired,
> and then have to spend 20 hours recompiling for the necessary
> functionality.

> For most people, disks are cheap. Time isn't.

Just out of interest, what are your assumptions wrt costs associated with
downloading?

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