Hi Giacomo! On 2004-01-28 7:57 +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > No. One of our power is the sources, let user install programs (and > kernels), from sources easy. 'apt-get install build-essential' is much easier than finding all development packages one does not need on a workstation IMHO. > On routers and firewall you will remove alot more programs, > so removing also gcc don't make a big difference. It is not just gcc, there are a lot of development packages that go along with it; it just would help the situation a bit. > "USE THE SOURCES!" I do when I have a reason for this (backporting, bug fixing etc.), but if I would like to compile everything from the sources I would use Gentoo. I see no gain in doing this, precompiled packages have a reason (they allow to install a router in half an hour and not 2 weeks of compiling). Have a nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt Debian GNU/Linux Developer martin@piware.de mpitt@debian.org http://www.piware.de http://www.debian.org
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