On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Arun, > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >>> I agree with Marc(what is surprising here?). Long ago I installed Redhat >>> and was shocked to find that there was no make in the default install. >> >> Why do you need 'make' in the default install when there are pre-built >> RPM package files for everything that Redhat provides in it's distro? >> > > It may not be for what ever is already in the distro's > repositories. What if I write a simple C application, with the source > code over 3-4 files ? I would use make. I guess it is alright to > expect make in the default install. Thanks >
To the best of my knowledge and the deployments I have seen, RHEL is meant for server setups. Thus, the development tools may not be part of the "default" installations. That is the USP Redhat has built up for RHEL. If I had to build something then I would do it in a "development" machine. To have a "development" machine, during the "install" process, I would choose the "Development" package group and voila I would have all the necessary tools to build my apps. I would then test it on a pre-production system before deploying it on the production server. I would not give the developer a "production" machine to develop and test his/her code. I think the OP needs to understand the different philosophies of the various distros and select the one that meets his requirements. In this case he probably missed the screen where he could do package selections during install time; really it only adds a few extra minutes to the install process. openBSD has only one flavor and perhaps it installs every thing including the kitchen sink to cater to *all* the needs of it's user base and that sets up a different set of expectations when those users move to Linux. The same would apply to Linux folks trying *BSD. I have a couple of FreeBSD setups and there are differences in the way it is administered v/s a Linux distro. It would be comparing apples to oranges to say the default FreeBSD install lacks blah blah vis-a-vis some Linux distro. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
