That's not what build-essential is for though. If we want a "install this to have a development environment" package, we should make one and called it "ubuntu-devel" or something.
build-essential is a package defined by Debian Policy
** Changed in: build-essential (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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build-essential has missleading description
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50232
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