On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: > George Vasick writes: > > Actually, we are proposing to to install binutils 2.19 in > > /usr/compilers/binutils219. It will be a separate package and not > > contained in /usr/compilers/gcc432. > > Again, my questions about the reasons for that haven't been answered yet: > > * Why /usr/compilers at all? We don't have /usr/webservers or > /usr/databases.
I object to /usr/compilers also. Might I suggest /usr/lib/compilers instead? > > > I don't think it would be too hard, and having separate packages for > > > different languages seems to match what Linux distributions do. > > > > The current packages do seem overly large, about 135 MB on x86. We > > propose to keep it a single package. > > I suppose you mean `don't seem' here? I find this unfortunate, since it > neither matches Sun Studio practice (which has separate patches for > different languages and runtime libraries) nor (as I mentioned) Linux > practice. The runtime libraries definitely need to be packaged separately from compile time tools. Whether or not to package different frontends separately is not important to me. Nico --
