build-essential

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On Saturday 04 September 2004 01:08, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Matt Zimmerman">
>
> > Removing the compiler only creates a marginal amount of extra work for an
> > attacker who will just upload or download their own binaries or find
> > another way around it, while the other 99.9% of people using the system
> > are needlessly inconvenienced.
>
> The other 99.9% of people using the system... Are they all going to use
> GCC?
>
> Our desktop seed is meant to provide the greatest common factor of packages
> that will be used on a desktop machine. It's *not* meant to be a
> superdooper hacker workstation.

For what it's worth, I'm not a superdooper hacker, but If I want to install 
software from magazine 'cover disks', such as On Linux Format I need to build 
the stuff.

I think anyone who gets past running email and web browsers will want to 
install software that is not out in a .deb file sooner or later.


Barry