Hi *,
I'd like to extend the discussion about OS names to the question of what
packages are assumed to be installed. Yesterday I was a bit surprised to
find that the RAL installation of SL does not come with a C++ compiler
installed by default; also atlas apparently found that some other
gcc-related packages were installed in some places and not others. Steve
Traylen tells me that sites decide individually what to install, and
that if VOs need particular packages they need to ask sites to do it. It
seems to me that this is not a very scalable solution, at least for
something as basic as a compiler, and that there should be some
agreement on what should be there by default. If we don't get agreement
I suspect we'll be back to the situation where VOs have to install
pretty much everything in their own software area because they won't be
able to rely on anything ...
Stephen
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