Re: Poor man's "source dependencies"
David Welton <davidw@master.debian.org> writes:
> Sort of a vague idea popped into my head. Don't know if it's already
> been considered and rejected or anything, but...:
>
> Would it be easier to just find the list of packages necessary to
> build everything, and say 'ok, this is the list you need for a build
> system'. That wouldn't be terribly useful for recreating a 'make
> world', but at least it would let the ports people know what to shoot
> for... Unless it were too big a list...
There's also the minor problem that some packages have conflicting
requirements - for example, tkdesk requires tk 4.2/tcl 7.6, which dev
packages conflict with other versions of the tk- and tcl-dev packages.
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