On Wednesday 23 November 2005 07:34 pm, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: > In my experience, it looks like SuSE 9 and 10 series will > leave gcc off a box by default (you can always use Yast to > install it easily enough). Considering SuSE's goal as a > business-class desktop OS environment as well as a data > center-class back-office server OS, this makes perfect sense. > Leaving off the C compiler by default helps to stop the > spread of self-reproducing, source-based worms or trojans.
That is not "leaving out gcc". It is there if you want it. The default is not to install it. There is nothing wrong with this.
