Installing a compiler by default

[Shawn McMahon]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:13 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> I've talked to some very well known security experts about this and they
> agree that it's BS.  The presense of a C compiler does not compromise
> system security.

If you want us to abandon current security best practices, then you need
to either demonstrate that they're wrong, or demonstrate that the
benefits outweigh the penalties for the majority of our users.

Citing anonymous sources doesn't do either.