Installing a compiler by default

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 12 June 2006 20:31, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> I'd think that removing the compiler tool-chain from the ISO in
> favour of freeing up space for more needed desktop tools would have
> been the more sensible approach though. A task or a meta-package
> that pulls in the relevant stuff from the repo's would be fairly
> trivial.

I can think of a good reason not to do that. In many parts of the 
world, dialup is the only available internet access method. On a 
notebook this can often require compiling the driver from linmodems. 
Using another machine to get the sources is OK, but without gcc on CD 
that means downloading gcc as well, and that can get very expensive
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Alan McKinnon
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