The arguments on change the compiler not near enough is damn failed as well.
LLVM and now clang are growing towards a been a standard soon for many applications.

Helio

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 02:38:44PM +0100, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> On 01/12/2015 02:30 PM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> > W dniu 12.01.2015 o 14:08, Vít Ondruch pisze:
> >
> >> I'd like to collect some feedback about the $SUBJECT, i.e. making
> >> minimal build root really minimal, explicitly specifying build
> >> dependencies, etc.
> >
> > Are you aware that this means changing build dependencies of most of
> > packages? Altering them just to add gcc, make etc.
>
> There is no progress without change.

That's simply an idiotic thing to say.  What is the progress involved
in adding a new BR to thousands of packages?

Rich.

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