Unless build-essential is not suited to obtain a usable development
environment, I don't see why it can't "double" as both "a package
defined by Debian policy" and a handy metapackage to be suggested for
obtaining a development environment.
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build-essential has missleading description
https://b
> If we want a "install this to have a development environment" package,
> we should make one and called it "ubuntu-devel" or something.
I (repeatedly) suggested that, but it was always discarded as
unneccessary...
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build-essential has missleading description
https://launchpad.net/bugs/50232
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: Unconfi
