Yeah, the build-essential meta package is part of the CD. A default GNOME installation will take up around 1.2GB already, so removing the packages that will be most likely used by a certain segment of users is sensible.
I think the fault here is that we are not able to point out directly on the help page via yelp or khelpcenter what to do when you need a certain configuration for your workstation. It does have an intuitive beginner's help page though. Jerome On 5/23/07, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ubuntu is being positioned at the typical office/home user -- the > non-techies -- hence any dev packages are not isntalled by default. > > Having a "standard dev" meta-package would be useful, but what would be > placed in it? LAMP programmers' needs are different from C programmers (or > any other platform-specific developers). > > I think that's why there's just a build-essential metapackage (make, gcc, > etc.) You then pick what else you need, e.g. install kernel headers if > you'll be compiling kernel modules (some software, like VMWare Server, > require this), or the full source if you'll be hacking away at the kernel. -- Best, Jerome Gotangco _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
