Martin Pitt wrote:
Hi! On 2004-01-28 8:44 +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:The number of people not using the task system that would have to install gcc by hand after installing the default packages would be a lot greater than the number of people who currently deinstall gcc because of being shortof space, so I don't think making gcc optional would be a good idea.Well, I think this is a strong "geek-minded" point of view...:-). In these days, people who really need a C compiler a a Unix machine, especially a workstation, is lowering.I fully agree :-)
OTOH the hard disk become bigger, and the quota of special machines that need to install minimmun of packages is lowering (IMHO). I see GNU/Linux and Debian as the "batteries included"[1] OS, so the os that include already the most used programs, and *I* consider gcc an importan program to include. ciao cate [1] "batteries included" is the motto of python