On Thursday 27 March 2008 11:43:57 Adam Conrad wrote: > If GCC is being installed by default, that sounds like a bug to me, it's > certainly not part of any of the sets of packages that SHOULD be > installed by default. > > If you're using a high-level package manager (ie: not apt-get) to > install gcc, it will recommend that you also install libc6-dev at the > same time. There are legitimate reasons to not require that libc6-dev > be installed when GCC is (it's definitely not required to make GCC > work), so we won't add it as a hard dependency ever.
Adam, Thanks for the email. For both beta 8.04 and the daily build from last night (March 28) upon install 'gcc' is indeed loaded by default. I have not done an install of gcc by any means, I promise..... :-) which gcc returns /usr/bin/gcc and a compile of a test program with #include <stdio.h> returns an error that stdio.h is not found, since libc6-dev is not installed. I think that gcc and libc6-dev should be installed by default, since there is a high probability that users of Linux will either develop code (such as myself) or possibly add packages from other sources that require the use of gcc. But the decision is up to you and the team. Just announce the standard disposition of gcc and we'll do the rest. Thanks, Chuck -- Chuck Adams, K7QO [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.k7qo.net/ Moving to Arizona? Bring your own water, please. -- libc6-dev should be loaded by default IMHO https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/206955 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
