On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > That is the best answer here. For some obscure reason more and more > people have forgotten that open source means you can freely go get > the sources and just build it. However the distro-masses are large > and loud and they just want what they want and no idea that the whole > source base is there freely. Building a complex piece of software like GCC is not quite so easy as "./configure && make", especially when you need it to interoperate with systems that may have been built with much older versions (there are issues around STL versioning etc. which are not always trivial to resolve). I get why people are more interested in having someone else do that work for them: not everyone has time to learn to do everything.
