On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:56:32PM +0100, Jan Kurik wrote:
> written in C/C++, they are written in Python, Ruby, Node.js, Go, Rust,
> OCaml, Perl and so on so they don't need to have C/C++ compiler.

OCaml is probably a bad example as it uses gcc as wrapper around gas
and ld to perform the assembly and final link[1].

> Faster build times (for packages which do not need gcc/gcc-c++
> during build)

Has more analysis been done on whether the median build will actually
be faster?  I mean, this change will slow down C/C++ builds for sure
and there are a lot of those.  And Koji supposedly caches buildroots
which would speed up everything [or could do, apparently it was
disabled in the Fedora instance last time I looked].

I also think the Changes page could reference past discussion on this
topic:

  
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-January/thread.html#206326

Anyway I'm not opposing this, just comments.

Rich.

[1] It does NOT generate C as some people incorrectly believe.

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