build-essential

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 01:36:07PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Matt Zimmerman">
> 
> > Neither of us has any facts for a comparison on an absolute scale, but
> > I'll wager than more of our users will use gcc than fully half of the
> > packages in Base+Desktop.
> 
> Our very first community users, sure! Down the track... Whoa, *no way*.

Have you looked at the package list recently?  You can't be serious.  The
hypothetical desktop user will use about 5 applications, and never know that
the rest of it exists.

> > We ship a lot of command-line, development, and power-user tools already
> > (and for good reason!), while we leave out the single most popular
> > development tool in the open source world.
> 
> The DesktopSeed doesn't define a developer workstation.

It doesn't exclude it either, and like it or not, gcc isn't exclusively a
developer tool in the Linux world.

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 - mdz