Re: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:25:47 -0800 Robert - elists lists07@abbacomm.net wrote:

ccache does not appear to be part of the centos base or core or whatever you wanna call it

I think it's just too new and shiny. ccache is installed by default with Fedora 8.

Is there any downside to installing ccache?

None that I've noticed myself. It can eat up a fair bit of hard drive space, but you can set that for whatever you want and in the age of big hard drives that's not a terribly significant issue.

How about on an internet facing box?

I can't see how it would introduce any vulnerabilities that a c compiler doesn't introduce on its own. But I'm not a security expert either, so what I do I know....