build-essential

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> Neither of us has any facts for a comparison on an absolute scale, but
> I'll wager than more of our users will use gcc than fully half of the
> packages in Base+Desktop.

Our very first community users, sure! Down the track... Whoa, *no way*.

> We ship a lot of command-line, development, and power-user tools already
> (and for good reason!), while we leave out the single most popular
> development tool in the open source world.

The DesktopSeed doesn't define a developer workstation.

- Jeff

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