build-essential

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:15:36AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Matt Zimmerman">
> 
> > I just noticed that build-essential and its dependencies only add about
> > 15M on top of the existing desktop install.  How about we promote
> > build-essential to desktop?
> 
> Why desktop instead of ship?

It's already in ship, and has been for some time.  The point is that people
expect to find C compilers on Unix-like systems, and it's only 15 megabytes
on top of a nearly 2GB install.

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 - mdz