bug#317: [Lnx-bbc-devel] changes to bbc-contents

Nate Riffe writes:

> I'm about to commit a number of subtractions from bbc-contents.  These
> subtractions fall into two categories:
> 
> 1) Packages which need fixing in order to build with glibc 2.3
> 2) Development tools
> 
> In the first category are disk/lde, net/iproute2, and net/wvdial.
> These packages have various source compatibility problems which I
> believe are related to glibc 2.3.  We could probably fix these with
> new upstream versions.
> 
> The second category consists of devel/bison, devel/flex, devel/gcc,
> devel/make, devel/nasm, devel/pkg-config, utils/binutils, and
> utils/cvs.  I think that using a stock BBC as a development platform
> is silly.  That said, I think that there is merit to having a separate
> LNX distribution which includes them.  As far as the BBC is concerned,
> though, we have a downloadable package system for packages which 1) do
> not further the core goals of the distribution and 2) might still be
> useful in some situations.

I think binutils and cvs (but not bison, flex, gcc, make, nasm, and
pkg-config) may be useful to keep.

Doesn't binutils provide things like strings, which can be very useful
outside of a compiling context?  And objdump, which lets you find out
a library's soname?

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