build-essential

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Scott James Remnant">

> > I welcome actively choosing to install a set of development tools.
>
> But we don't have this functionality yet, and won't have it for warty.
> Until that time I think it'll more surprising that we *don't* have basic
> development tools than if we do.

build-essential, on its own, is not useful for the majority of cases where
you want to build something. So you're going to have to install other things
anyway. It's easy to draw a clear line here. :-)

- Jeff

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