Too many binary packages are missing

[Yuri]

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.

Yuri