No gcc in desktop spin?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 29 09:59:48 UTC 2007


dragoran wrote:
> 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?

The above.

Rahul




More information about the desktop mailing list