From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 25 13:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB28737B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9PKqn708419; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:52:49 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20011025135249.B80517@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110250222.f9P2M30H071765@atg.aciworldwide.com>; from lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:22:03PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:22:03PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > There was a > related argument as to whether gcc (as a name) should die as well, > but the argument was made that too many third party packages would > break as a result. NO! There is zero need for this change, and yes many 3rd part things will break. > Meanwhile, it has been useful to install different versions of the > GNU C compiler, and in those cases it has also been useful to call > them by their real names: gcc and g++. It also works fine to have them named what I have made them in the ports. Your email sounds like you have a special (or unusual) need that you are trying to force upon all of us. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message