Agreed, tools like git that is useful for "everyone" as in users of any language make sense.

If we want toolchains to be provided by default, the best middleground IMO is to select them during the Anaconda installation, otherwise it can feel bloated if they're jam packed in.

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On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@gnome.org> wrote:
> I would also like to include the entire @c-development group
> (Autotools, make, GCC, valgrind, etc.). This will be useful for enough
> people that I think it's worth having for the convenience, even if it
> makes the install media slightly larger

Would folks actually use it? Out here in the Real World(TM) we compile
code on build boxes, not our desktops. I think that git is useful, an
entire development toolchain not so much. Nothing is stopping people
from getting that if they want it (which I suspect some will), but
where do we stop? Let's also include Erlang, R, Haskell, Ruby, every
Python module, and every other language known to man. I think that
this invites a hard look at "who is our target audience and what do
they want?" While I'm sure that *some* people would want an entire
toolchain, I suspect it to be a vast minority of the target audience.