What's the reason for the inflationary increase in the number of students visiting our university courses this semester? All courses I am aware of have a much higher number of students than was predicted by past experience. For some courses even the scheduled rooms are quite small.
To support an inflationary increase in my package repository I started to populate the repository for SUSE Linux 10.1 with the first two packages. Only two packages so far but it is a start. Note that you should _never_ install the package build-ccache on your system because it is intended to be used by morebuild only. Installing this package on a normal SUSE system might result in strange behavior. Maybe I should finally implement some ideas to morebuild that would obsolete this package completely.
Another point that results from latest SUSE releases and especially from the shipment of gcc 4.0.x is that I had to read the detailed rules for C++ lookup rules with templates to understand the details of why _exactly_ gcc rejected some specific code. I was aware about the basic facts but the specific case required the details. Funny thing was that this was the first case where gcc even provided a more detailed error message than compilers with the EDG front end. Typically it is the other way around. I use to run critical code through compilers with the EDG front end to get additional hints about problems but for this specific case one of the EDG based compilers that rightfully rejected the code like gcc did give much less detailed information about the problem and another one even accepted the illegal code like older gcc releases did. Seems the second one either uses a broken version of the EDG front end or just wants to be "compatible" to all the other broken compilers.
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