Installing a compiler by default

[Luca Donetti]

2006/6/8, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>:

> I'm interested in hearing more opinions one way or the other, especially
> from beyond the developer community.
>

It seems to me that one of the main reasons for the inclusion is the
relative difficulty to find the proper way to install the compiler for
new ubuntu users.
I don't know if there are technical difficulties (conflicting
packages, upgrades...) but I think that a possible solution could be
to install a "fake" gcc (and possibly other tools as "make" etc) that
only prints a message explaining the proper way (apt-get install
build-essentials) to install a building enviroment.
Is it possible to do this in a clean way? Are there problems with this
approach I am missing?

Luca