On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 08:09:38PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
Other distro such as RHEL/CentOS also enabled this and ship it for a long time and I cannot see any hurm for it, and we can get fix from them if there would be.
I have more faith in upstream than in redhat, honestly, so that isn't a factor. The reason it doesn't currently build that way is that it would as a side effect raise the priority of libgmp, and I'm not sure that using expr for big numbers is worth making libgmp mandatory on a minimal debian install.
Mike Stone
