Installing a compiler by default

[Stephan Hermann]

On Friday 09 June 2006 12:37, Ralf Meyer wrote:
> On 2006-06-09, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> > Shameless +1 from me. Making it easier for people to mess up is not a
> > good thing imho.
> >
> >From the Ubuntu front page:
>
> ---
> The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu
> Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that
> software tools should be usable by people in their local language and
> despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to
> customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit.
> ---
>
> Freedom includes the freedom to mess things up.

That is right, but we do also promise community support (forget about the 
commercial support) for Ubuntu for 18 months (LTS releases even longer), and 
for the community support crew it's impossible to handle actually already the 
ammount of questions for compiling new drivers from source (e.g. ati / 
nvidia / wireless drivers etc.). 
If there is a developer, who knows actually what he is doing, he knows as 
well, how and where to find the necessary development tools.

But for the normal user, it's fairly not needed to compile new sources from 
scratch after a default install.

regards,

\sh