Subj : A Terminal and a Manual
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Richard Falken
Date : Mon Oct 21 2019 14:48:40

  Re: A Terminal and a Manual
  By: Maurice Kinal to Kai Richter on Mon Oct 21 2019 09:18 pm

 > I seriously doubt the above contains gcc and friends which as of gcc-9.2.0  
takes up 455MB for
 > the
 > basic toolchain which in my humble guesstimation is the  bare bones minimum 
to call a linux-gnu
 > shell enviroment.  Without gcc and  friends the above is only a toy and 
doesn't even rate
 > calling a
 > evaluation  system given the lack of development tools.  Anything that 
cannot take care of
 > itself
 > isn't worth booting in the first place.

Hmmm... so you do think that an operating system install that lacks a GCC 
compiler is, for lack of a better expression, not worth it?

I think that take is a bit extreme. Maybe you have a small computer farm and do 
all your package building in a compiling cluster, then distribute your packages 
from your local repository to your clients. I used to do something like that 
with OpenBSD. The client computers don't need to have a full GCC because you 
are doing the work somewhere else :)

But, hmmmm, if you are setting up for learning, and are running a single 
instance, then I think you actually need a good set of development tools in it.
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