Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 1/3/2025 7:48 AM, David Brown wrote:

On 02/01/2025 19:16, DFS wrote:

On 7/4/2024 4:24 AM, David Brown wrote:

On 03/07/2024 15:41, DFS wrote:

On 7/3/2024 5:36 AM, bart wrote:

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That's enough of a track record for even one person that one can say, Linux pretty much always comes with gcc. And if it doesn't, it's easy to install as you say.

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distrowatch.com shows most distros come with gcc preinstalled.
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No, it does not.

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Yes, it does.
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 No.
 You were wrong half a year ago when this discussion was active, and you are still wrong now.  Are you /really/ bearing a grudge for that long?

My experience in the past was gcc was almost always installed with the distro.

Distrowatch shows the version of the packages in the distributions repositories,

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Wrong again.
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 From the founder of distrowatch:
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"The package versions are the ones included on the install media."
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 Re-read that sentence.  Then try again a few more times, until you understand it.  Having a package on the install media does /not/ mean it is necessarily installed

I never said it did.  Nor did distrowatch make that claim.

- it merely means it is available for installation if the user wants.  In most cases, people do not install anything close to all the packages on the installation media (unless the installation media is intentionally for a minimal install).

Reread your incorrect claim a few more times, then read what distrowatch said, until YOU understand it:
You:         "Distrowatch shows the version of the packages in the
               distributions repositories"
Distrowatch: "The package versions are the ones included on the install
               media."
The versions (in the repo and shown on distrowatch) might match the moment the distro is released, but the way FOSS is updated willy nilly every 5 minutes, they soon do not.