Suggestions on Ubuntu default installation

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:19:13AM -0400, Andrew Robert wrote:

> That being said, I think that the default installation should include 
> gcc and spamassassin/razor/pyzor.

gcc is explicitly and intentionally not installed by default.  This was
discussed here:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2004-September/000524.html

spamassassin is unsupported software, and so naturally is not installed by
default.

> Without these, the Evolution junk filters fail to work properly and 
> compiling new software fails.

A well-integrated spam filtering solution in the default desktop is planned
for the next release.

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 - mdz