build-essential

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> I'll say it again: this doesn't require that we diverge from what
> developers and the open source community expect.  The user who doesn't
> know what a compiler is, won't be harmed in any way by its presence, apart
> from being short a trivial amount of disk space.

You may be right, but this is not in keeping with the 'greatest common
factor' intent of the desktop seed. Why have it there at all if the users
won't be using it? Let's make this line very clear. Previously, it was very
clear - we decided not to ship developer tools with the desktop.

Plus, to do anything really useful with a compiler, you need a bunch of
other tools. I would far prefer to see that whole set installed when you
click "Developer Toolkit" or whatever, than have half-and-half available,
but not entirely useful to anyone.

- Jeff

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