On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 03:04 -0700, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
>
>
> Jerome Gotangco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, the build-essential meta package is part of the CD. A
> default
> GNOME installation will take up around 1.2GB already, so
> removing the
> packages that will be most likely used by a certain segment of
> users
> is sensible.
> But why include /usr/bin/gcc if we are not giving glibc-devel
> (/usr/include/*.h, /usr/lib/lib*.a, etc) and kernel-headers
> (/usr/include/linux/include/{linux,asm} )? Gcc should be made to work
> (at least) if we are going to supply it.
The setup of kernel headers + gcc is enough to compile loadable kernel
modules. You'd only need glibc-devel and binutils for userland
application development.
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