[ubuntu-in] Build-Essential as pre-installed?

[Ninad Pundalik]

Hi,

Ubuntu, though is targetted at a general computer user, is often used
by many who also regularly code in C/C++.  Also, it's quite popular
among college students, who have some sort a basic course in C.  And
when they try to compile a .c file, and find that stdio.h isn't
available, they are lost.  I agree that all they have to do is insert
the cd, and run a small command or open up synaptic.  But, it isn't
mentioned anywhere in the documentation prominently enough.

So, is it possible to get build-essential included as a package that
gets installed in the base system itself?  Space won't be a issue, as
the .debs are already there on the cd/dvd.  This would also make life
easier for a lot of people, and keep them interested in Linux. This I
say from the experience of a lot of friends, who took Ubuntu 'lite'
after they found that they couldnt compile a simple C program, while
Linux is something that's been mainly coded in C.

Ninad S. Pundalik
http://ninadpundalik.co.cc/blog

P.S.: Ubuntu ha sonly vim.tiny installed since 8.10.  I was not very
happy with this, as I expect many other users would...