Installing a compiler by default

[Florian Diesch]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> 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.

I don't think gcc should be installed by default. But I think there
should be a meta package that installs the packages you need to compile
kernel modules that doesn't say "If you do not plan to build Debian
packages, you don't need this package.  Moreover this package is not
required for building Debian packages." like build-essential
does. Instead it should have relevant keywords like gcc, make, compile
etc. in its description so people will find it.

Maybe the standard installation could have low priority alternatives
for gcc and make that tell the user that this software is not installed
yet and offers to install the needed packages.




   Florian
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