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   Message 6,184 of 8,232   
   Richard Falken to Maurice Kinal   
   A Terminal and a Manual   
   21 Oct 19 14:48:40   
   
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     Re: A Terminal and a Manual   
     By: Maurice Kinal to Kai Richter on Mon Oct 21 2019 09:18 pm   
      
    > I seriously doubt the above contains gcc and friends which as of gcc-9.2.0    
   takes up 455MB for   
    > the   
    > basic toolchain which in my humble guesstimation is the  bare bones minimum   
   to call a linux-gnu   
    > shell enviroment.  Without gcc and  friends the above is only a toy and   
   doesn't even rate   
    > calling a   
    > evaluation  system given the lack of development tools.  Anything that   
   cannot take care of   
    > itself   
    > isn't worth booting in the first place.   
      
   Hmmm... so you do think that an operating system install that lacks a GCC   
   compiler is, for lack of a better expression, not worth it?   
      
   I think that take is a bit extreme. Maybe you have a small computer farm and   
   do all your package building in a compiling cluster, then distribute your   
   packages from your local repository to your clients. I used to do something   
   like that with OpenBSD. The client computers don't need to have a full GCC   
   because you are doing the work somewhere else :)   
      
   But, hmmmm, if you are setting up for learning, and are running a single   
   instance, then I think you actually need a good set of development tools in it.   
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