I don't know... the gdc itself wasn't so bad (aside from taking forever, just waiting on tar zxf for gcc was a huge huge wait) but the
Make sure you only download the gcc-core package to avoid all the other frontends.
instructions didn't even mention the runtime and phobos. I had some weird compile errors on that when I tried.
phobos is automatically compiled as part of the build process (and installed as well).
