> it's much easier just to regard a gcc-based environment as another > world (which is what is, anyway) and let it be self-contained (as well > as self-centred).
That has my vote. A bunch of New Yorker discovered Miami in the 1920's. It was a paradise! All they needed to do to make it perfect was cut down all the palm trees, pave over the sand dunes and build tall buildings that look just like New York. Then they all moved to L. A.
