Subject: Re: bug#35551: package gcc does not depend on binutils and glibc
From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 02:20:02 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Bruno,

Welcome!

Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> You are really looking for `gcc-toolchain' package. See section 
> 2.6.6 in
> the manual.

Yup!  :-)

‘Toolchain’ exactly describes what you're looking for, so I'm 
going to go ahead and close this bug.

(Speaking as a user, I'd be annoyed to the point of switching if 
my distro installed ‘binutils’ when asked for ‘gcc’.)

Kind regards,

T G-R