Re: Baby X is bor nagain

Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
[...]

And of course as a programming person I always want gcc and can't
imagine a Unix-type system without a commandline C compiler. And I had
a pretty clear memory that you got gcc by default. But other pepole
say not, and you check a box as you install. And so I suppose it must
be so.

Different Linux-based distributions are different.  Some provide gcc by
default.  Some do not.  Some provide options during installation,
letting the installer decide with varying degrees of granularity which
packages are going to be installed.  Almost all make it straightforward
to install gcc and other packages after the initial setup, typically
with a single command that might take a few minutes to run.

It is demonstrably *not* the case that all Linux-based distribution
install gcc by default.

Personally, I don't pay much attention to whether gcc is installed
initially.  If I need it, I install it.

I suggest that this discussion is no longer useful.

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