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* bug#43303: GCC package name
@ 2020-09-10  5:20 Jeffrey Walton
  2020-09-10  6:18 ` Malte Gerdes
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Jeffrey Walton @ 2020-09-10  5:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 43303

Hi Everyone,

It took me about 15 minutes to install GCC on Guix because Guix named
the GCC package libgccjit.

I understand Guix package manager is powerful. I think you should use
an alias feature (or whatever it is called under Guix), and create and
few aliases to help with administration:

   gcc -> libgccjit
   g++ -> libgccjit
   gcc-c++ -> libgccjit

These are the names developers expect for the compiler. They don't
expect a name like libgccjit.

With the aliases in place, a command like 'guix install gcc' works as expected.

Without the aliases (and absent a sane package name), people have to
lookup the documentation and read how to use the package manager for a
simple task like installing the compiler. When 50 or 100 developers
waste 15 minutes of their time, that's about 1 man-week wasted.
There's no reason to waste man-weeks on simple tasks.

Thanks in advance.




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2020-09-10  5:20 bug#43303: GCC package name Jeffrey Walton
2020-09-10  6:18 ` Malte Gerdes
2020-09-10  8:34 ` zimoun
2020-09-10 10:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-10 11:16   ` zimoun
2020-09-10 11:32     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-10 11:43       ` zimoun
2020-09-10 13:22         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-09-11 16:11     ` zimoun
2020-09-10 11:22   ` Jeffrey Walton

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