Remove gcc, gcc-c++ and make from minimal build root

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 01:31:06PM +0100, Sven Lankes wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:16:42PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > That's simply an idiotic thing to say.  What is the progress involved
> > in adding a new BR to thousands of packages?
> 
> Am I wrong assuming that it would be rather easy to add the BR to all
> packages semi-automatically previous to a mass rebuild so that people
> who want to get rid of gcc for their packages can easily remove it?
> 
> What am I missing?

What is missing is there is no quantifcation yet of the benefit.
How much faster will builds be?  Versus how long will it take to
either modify all these packages / write and run the script to do
that?  Is A > B?

Rich.

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