On Monday 25 February 2008 13:09:39 Eric Wilhelm wrote: > We always install the latest version of a dependency dist (jagged edges > and all -- except if it was not indexed[1]), so why include stale > versions of some odd number of build tools in the tarball? Why not > just bundle 3 (or 7) compiler and linker binaries while we're at it?
I wonder that myself. The argument that "people don't want to install things" doesn't make sense when they're trying to install things, and the argument that "some people don't install things" doesn't make sense when we're talking about people who are trying to install things. -- c
