What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:17:32 -0500, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 22:37:31 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer  
> wrote:
>> I don't see why dmd distribution needs to include the source for all  
>> the tools it uses.  I frequently never touch the source of dmd  
>> distribution, I just use the compiled binaries.
>
> Guess why it is close to impossible to get DMD into some Linux distro  
> repositories. If source for official tools won't be available, then gdc  
> and ldc will become rather screwed, too. Not an option.

The issue is not that the source is unavailable, the issue is that the  
tool requires libraries that Walter does not want to include.

-Steve