Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[Christopher Chan]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.
>   

If you are referring to me, I said that based on REDHAT Linux and 
Caldera OpenLinux. I don't know about Ubuntu. I use the alternative 
installer too for Ubuntu/Kubuntu so whatever recipes there are for d-i 
that gives these options...if someone knows what the options are.