On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:58:52AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: >... > In fact, I've never looked at the gcc documentation other than to look > up machine-specific options and optimization flags. It's easy to use > gcc without the documentation.
Simple usage might work, but as soon as you reach any question like e.g. How do I pass in a additional path to the include path of gcc? Which optimization levels does gcc support? Which optimization option is best for my CPU? you are pretty lost without the documentation. >... > Adrian> Until recently, non-free contained only some obscure things most > Adrian> people didn't require. ... > > Such as a graphical web browser, back in the time before mozilla existed > or was usable. Or acroread (before the security vulnerability, when it > was decided to just drop it from the archive altogether), or the Flash > plugin (well, it's in contrib, but only because it downloads the actual > plugin from the web) or msttcorefonts (also in contrib, for the same > reason as the Flash plugin). Or giflib. Those are all obscure things. >... My point is: Non-free was going to contain mostly obscure things now that there are free replacements for Netscape and Acroread. Debian's steps of moving more and more things into non-free forces many users to use non-free who wouldn't do otherwise. Is this effect really wanted? cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]