build-essential

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> > Why desktop instead of ship?
> 
> It's already in ship, and has been for some time.

Uh huh, I put it there. ;-) But why in desktop...

> The point is that people expect to find C compilers on Unix-like systems,
> and it's only 15 megabytes on top of a nearly 2GB install.

... aha. That said, I would strongly suggest that 'secure by default' means
'no compilers for the script kiddies'. Let's not do this, it freaks me out.

- Jeff

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