build-essential

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:40:41PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >It's not a make-or-break requirement, as far as I'm concerned, that the
> >system include a C compiler.  But I really get irked when people try to
> >paint this as a security feature.
> 
> Not that we need to do anything like Apple does it, but Mac OS X ships 
> without development tools/compilers installed.  It comes on a separate 
> CD which has to be installed separately when you buy a CD set of the OS, 
> and when you buy a new machine, there's an installer package for it in 
> the Applications directory (but it's not already installed until you do it).

Mac OS X feels like quite a different case to me. Mac OS doesn't have a
history of shipping with compilers or having interesting third-party
software supplied in the form of C source code; Unix and Linux do have
this history and context, and a lot of our users are going to come to us
with it.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]