Suggestions on packages to add to Ubuntu "main"

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 13 00:51:17 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 05:21:49PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:

> Due to the fact this is a desktop distribution development
> tools/sources are not included.  If the kernel sources were included
> (which are rather large, especially for all flavors) development tools
> such as gcc would also be needed and this would really start to take
> up a lot of room.  If you want kernel sources or development tools it
> is generally thought you are fairly experienced and would not have too
> much problem downloading them.

Development tools are already on the CD, in case they are needed.  They are
simply not installed by default.  Thus, we have the best of both worlds.

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 - mdz




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