Installing a compiler by default

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 21:13 +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:44 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I would like to propose that, beginning in Edgy, Ubuntu desktop systems
> > (both live and installed) should, by default, include the set of packages
> > necessary to compile simple C programs and Linux kernel modules.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Having a compiler installed is not wrong, and you already identified
> what would be my biggest fear, getting systems compromised and handing
> the intruder the tools to carry on on a silver platter.
> 

If someone cracks a system don't you think they could just compile on
their local machine and upload binaries?  I really don't understand the
argument that having a compiler installed is a security issue.

Lee