No gcc in desktop spin?

dragoran drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 09:42:34 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> dragoran wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have read the list here:
>> http://people.redhat.com/jkeating/f7-desktop.list
>> And there seems to be no gcc
>> Desktop users want to develop and compile things, so I think this should
>> go in.
>> Reasons for not including it?
>
> If you are compiling and developing things, you would fall outside the 
> scope of a typical desktop user. You can always do a yum install if 
> you need it. Don't turn the desktop spin into Fedora Core all over again.
>
We should somehow define what we mean by "Desktop"...
What is desktop user?
Someone who browse the web and write documents?
Someone who play games?
--> everything for them is in
Developers?
-->missing stuff...
Most people develop on desktop systems not on servers ;)

> Rahul
>




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