[Sheflug] Re: GCC Compiler

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard  <richard [at] sheflug.co.uk> writes:

    >> I still don't understand why Richard's system's PMS doesn't
    >> recommend all these development packages.  On a recent Debian,
    >> it's hard to install just one package anymore.  You have to use
    >> --force-ignore-depends options.

    Richard> Well, what's happened is that I've got a 1Gb drive on
    Richard> that machine and the installation that I tried out needs
    Richard> 1.5Gb.  So, it's a hung installation.  Leaving me to find
    Richard> which bits didn't make it to the hard drive.

My condolences.

It should be possible to get RPM to give you a list of dependencies
for say GCC; that should be of some help.

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