<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matt Zimmerman</b> <<a href="mailto:mdz@ubuntu.com">mdz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Playing the role of a user looking for gcc, I searched the offline<br>documentation (yelp) for "gcc", and did not find such instructions.  Even <br>so, I don't think that adding instructions would fully address the problem.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>...</div> <div><br>> All of these except step 4 are usually answered by a single  document which<br>> applies to all distributions equally.<br> </div> <div>Actually, then people would ask where the linux source is, since ubuntu will only ship with the linux-headers packages - which is pretty ubuntu-specific.  It's a very common question on the forums, too.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>> What reason is there *not* to install it?<br> </div> <div>Only the ones you mentioned.  I think it will help a few people, but not solve the greatest part of the problem.  So is it worth it?</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>azz<br> </div></div>