On Monday 09 July 2001 13:07, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> So sprach civileme am Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:33:09PM +0000:
> > distro because we haven't thoroughly tested it yet. It is in cooker if
> > anyone wants to download it and use it, so the complaint about packages
> > that
>
> Actually, no, it's not in Cooker. gcc 3.0 is in contribs for the reason
> you mentioned.
>
> > legislated against the name 2.96 is vacuous for anyone of expert level.
>
> And packages which stop just because of the name "gcc 2.96" are broken.
> And I also doubt that those packages will compile cleanly with 3.0, as
> 3.0 is more like 2.96 than 2.95.
>
> Alexander Skwar
Mplayer's config file suggested 3.0. I haven't tried it (I will more likely
edit the config file to excise the exclusion). Some of our systems need to
be running; it is nice to play - but it is good to get in, compile and get
out (sometimes).
