Too many binary packages are missing

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 10/13/2010 10:51, Frank Shute wrote:
>
>> gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they
>> are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or
>> its applications.
>>
>>
>
> Base has 4.2.1 and not updating (waiting for LLVM conversion maybe). So
> many ports require various gcc versions to be installed. Mostly to build
> them at buildtime, and libraries at runtime. And turns out that binaries for
> these extra gcc packages are missing for some reason.
>
> And QT is one of the major graphics toolkits. Various random packages use
> them as well as KDE. Pretty basic thing.
>
>  It's a case of having space on the servers IIRC.
>>
>> Also some require too many options to be set at build time (probably
>> the problem with qt). I know it's the reason why OO.o is not packaged
>> - too many languages&  other options.
>>
>>
>
> I am not sure how Debian packages handle this. They seem to support all the
> same options and are always in binaries.
>

I think it would be nice if at least one binary package was available with
the most "typical" dependencies. For example, I am not a native English
speaker, but I would not mind using the English version OO if I could
download it as a binary package... Just my $0.02...


> Yuri
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