bug#317: gcc should be able to build binaries, or should be removed

Seth David Schoen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Package: gcc

We shouldn't install gcc onto the BBC if it doesn't work.  If it's too
large, we should make it a downloadable package.

That also goes for other programs whose only purpose is to help
compile C or C++ programs.  Users will be confused or annoyed if gcc
is present but doesn't work, and, more to the point, it will take up
disk space.  Packages which are incomplete really should be made
downloadable.

We do definitely need gcc for libstdc++, but the binaries and so on
could be pruned.

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