build-essential

Mark Shuttleworth mark at hbd.com
Mon Sep 6 04:57:01 CDT 2004


Agree with Jeff here - they don't belong half in Desktop, they belong in 
Ship.seed, and it should be possible to get the WHOLE bang shoot 
(perhaps even -dev packages for all Desktop libraries etc?) with a 
single command.

Jeff Waugh wrote:

><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
>
>  
>

-- 
Try Debian GNU/Linux. Software freedom for the bold, at www.debian.org
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/






More information about the sounder mailing list