Bug 389163

Summary:	sys-devel/gcc: /usr/bin/cc should be removed (?)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial	CC:	manday, ssuominen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cedric Sodhi 2011-11-01 08:42:01 UTC

GCC is the system compiler these days, CC should not be kept arround, especially not as a separate file. If any packages require CC, which they shouldn't, that will be a bug of these packages.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-11-01 15:33:01 UTC

I see no benefit in removing it. Only breaks backwards compat for no gain. But letting toolchain maintainers close this one.

Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-11-01 15:45:51 UTC

I see no reason to remove `cc`.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-11-01 16:10:50 UTC

what mark said

Comment 4 Cedric Sodhi 2011-11-01 16:30:43 UTC

What about hardlinking it? Not that I'd care, I'd rather want that useless file gone, but a hardlink wouldn't hurt, would it?

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-11-01 17:17:44 UTC

updating gcc-config to use hardlinks to its internal wrapper wouldn't be hard, but it would be dangerous imo.  if someone were to modify any of the other binaries, it'd break all of them.  we are talking about ~10KB of waste per wrapped binary.  i would lean towards the existing behavior for safety since the overhead on disk isn't significant.

having a specific target hardlink amongst themselves is probably fine, but they can't hardlink back to the original wrapper.

file a new bug for this request.