Many people check if gcc is installed by typing "gcc", if you need to have a bare bone non-usable gcc by default, then don't put it in the path at least. This will give users a more intuitive experience, i.e. "oh, it looks like gcc is not installed so thus I have install it" instead of "seems like gcc is installed but apparently it's not working, I better go online and see if someone else had this problem before etc".
Installing a non-usable gcc is practically begging for trouble... what if Microsoft installed a Wordpad icon which crashed Wordpad by default. No way they could get away with that. -- gcc is broken in Gutsy Tribe5 directly after installation+upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137608 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
