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

Susi Lehtola jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jan 15 01:23:25 UTC 2015


On 01/14/2015 04:38 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> And it seems that this is the number of packages written in C++:
>
> $ repoquery --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide --source --whatrequires
> 'libstdc++.so.6*' | sort -u | sed -r 's/(.*)-.*-.*/\1/' | uniq | wc -l
> 2396
>
> I'd like to point out at this place, that this would help also the 5006
> packages written in C, since they don't need C++ to build. Only 14.8 %
> of packages, which happens to be written in C++, would not benefit from
> this change.

Instead of dropping make, gcc, and gcc-c++ from the minimal build root, 
would it make sense just to drop gcc-c++? That would only affect a small 
minority of packages, while eliminating some amount of additional 
packages in the buildroot.
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Susi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org


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