Re: gcc-4.2 build-depends?

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Subject: Re: gcc-4.2 build-depends?
From: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:52:02 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] op.thl4p2kscfnueu@u-pl19.ms.mff.cuni.cz> (Jiri Palecek's message of "Wed\, 18 Oct 2006 12\:28\:40 +0200")
References: <[🔎] op.thl4p2kscfnueu@u-pl19.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

"Jiri Palecek" <jpalecek@web.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> can anyone explain why gcc-4.2 build-depends on libgconf2-dev,
> libxul-dev,  libart-2.0-dev, libgtk2.0-dev,
> lib32asound2-dev, libcairo2-dev, libqt4-dev and several others? It
> seems  quite strange (well, even
> more) to me.

Well, it builds a couple of binary packages that might well need such
libraries.  Without looking at the source, names like 

gappletviewer-4.2 Standalone application to execute Java (tm) applets
gcjwebplugin-4.2  Web browser plugin to execute Java (tm) applets

sound like good candidates.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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