Re: Does #322722 make sense?
Remi Vanicat <remi.vanicat@gmail.com> writes:
> 2005/9/3, Jérôme Marant <jmarant@free.fr>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> gcc and al are standard packages. Is this really relevant?
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> gcc is not an essential package, only a build essential one. So yes,
> to be policy compliant, we should depend on it.
> We don't want one of our user to failed to compile one of his program
> because he have no gcc installed, and do only ocaml
>
> On the other side, I believe that one could compile a program with
> ocamlc without it (at least, when you use no C library). But I still
> believe we should depend on it.
Right. I agree we should add dependencies on gcc and binutils for
ocaml-nox and ocaml-native-compilers.
Shall I go for it?
--
Jérôme Marant
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