Developer package selection

[Bryce Harrington]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 06:32:48PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> Overriding the meaning of build-essential seems quite confusing to me. A
> c-development meta package is very easy to create. A C development task
> seems easy, too.
> 
> However, this begs the question of the larger picture: there are all
> sorts of reasonably popular things that could benefit from similar
> treatmet: software development in various other languages, or web
> application development using a LAMP stack come immediately to mind. Any
> approach for C development would hopefully be possible to generalize to
> the other fields.

Definitely agreed.  Little niceties like this that would make Ubuntu
more convenient for developers would help eliminate the "only for noobs"
stigma.  I've often wished for a simple way to "install all -dev and -dbg
packages related to X/GNOME/etc."

Bryce