On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:27:25PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Wesley W. Terpstra dijo [Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:59:36PM +0200]: > > At this point my question is only academic; the pure-gcc in main, > > icc-prebuilt in contrib solution seems to solve my concerns just as well. > > I have only one concern with this: What happens if you drop the > package and someone else takes it? He will no longer be able to > compile it with icc, and the icc-prebuilt users will be left out in > the cold. What would you say to that?
He can upload a version to contrib which depends on the version in main and has no contents. Then the icc users are automatically converted to gcc. Or else, if he is an open-source developer who makes no money from his debian work, he can download icc from their site for free. Just universities and paid researchers like me have to pay. Sniff. -- Wesley W. Terpstra
