Installing a compiler by default

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 11:46 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Hardware vendors today are more often starting to provide Linux
> drivers in source code form, and this is a good thing.  It means both
> that we can more often ship all of the needed drivers, and it also
> means that where we don't yet, users can help each other and
> themselves.  The vendor often provides perfectly reasonable
> documentation for how to install the driver from source, but if the
> user is using Ubuntu, the instructions fail. 

I'm not sure how good this is.  What we really need is for the vendors
to get their drivers into the kernel.  It's not enough for them to just
post a tarball on their web site and be sone with it.

For example Realtek forked alsa-driver and posted their own source code,
and it led to more problems than it solved - the integration with the
rest of the system was poor (really non-existent) and they did not even
supply an uninstaller.  There was no attempt whatsoever to submit
patches to the ALSA team.

Lee