build-essential

[David Miller]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:08:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> It's not a make-or-break requirement, as far as I'm concerned, that the
> system include a C compiler.  But I really get irked when people try to
> paint this as a security feature.

Not that we need to do anything like Apple does it, but Mac OS X ships 
without development tools/compilers installed.  It comes on a separate 
CD which has to be installed separately when you buy a CD set of the OS, 
and when you buy a new machine, there's an installer package for it in 
the Applications directory (but it's not already installed until you do it).

The latter raises another idea...  we could put the debs on the hard 
drive but not install them, and include a link to a metapackage that 
installs them all in the Computer menu or in the default user's home 
directory or something.

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