[Linux-disciples] /bin/cc

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Dylan Thurston wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:52:31PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:48:33PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
>>>> I don't think the alternatives system is cross-distro.
>>> But it is in Ubuntu.
>> Do you mean that 'cc' is one of the alternatives?
> No, AFAIK neither Debian nor Ubuntu provides alternatives for 'cc'.  As
> Adam suggested, perhaps they should.

Oddly, it seems some packages do provide cc alternatives. E.g., TenDRA I
think adds a cc alternative. I may be wrong, but I don't think alternatives
need to be done on a distribution-wide policy level, but rather individual
packages can simply provide alternatives. Clearly in this case it would be
gcc that should provide a cc alternative.