Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Derek Broughton]

Rashkae wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Nope.  It won't.
> 
> 
> Actually, it did.  Gcc and make were both installed by default, and so
> far, i can't find the ol build essentials meta package either.

$ apt-cache policy build-essential
build-essential:
  Installed: 11.4
  Candidate: 11.4
  Version table:
 *** 11.4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

Somebody said you can actually tell the installer (some versions at least) 
that it's a developer install - I haven't seen that prompt.
-- 
derek