Re: libstdc++

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Boris A. Dekshteyn <boris.dekshteyn@gmail.com> writes:

>> It’s still there, but the ‘gcc’ package has been “hidden” recently,
>> meaning that you cannot refer to it by name from the command line.
>
> But i can :)
> ~guix environment --ad-hoc -e '(list (@@ (gnu packages gcc) gcc-9) "lib")'~

That’s not the *package* name; this is the *variable* name.

>> The reason is that in general you’ll want ‘gcc-toolchain’, not ‘gcc’.
>> ‘gcc-toolchain:lib’ contains libstdc++ and co.
>
> Why not keep both?

We decided to hide “gcc” because over the past few years people would
often install it when they wanted GCC — a reasonable deduction to make.
But our “gcc” package on its own does not give you a working GCC – the
“gcc-toolchain” package does.  So by hiding the “gcc” package it is much
less likely that someone looking for GCC will end up with a broken package. 

-- 
Ricardo