On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:45:56PM +0100, Miro Dietiker, MD Systems wrote: > Hi! > > Debootstrap depends on the following (un addition to the listed in > package!): > - grep > - sed > - gzip (zcat) > - tar > > What is the reason for not listing this in the package? > It made me much work to try to run debootstrap till it cancelled > due to missing prerequisites, building these again, rebuilding > system and retry to boot debootstrap... > > I had also a dependency on "ls" (coreutils) on libattr1 which > is not listed. > > Any comments? <meta> Those are the difficult messages. The poster _is_ putting some effort in his challenge. But it is not clear what he is trying to achieve. </meta> Miro, In a previous posting you were doing something crossplatform. ( Crossplatform is cool! (yep, it is also on my wishlist)) Your question > What is the reason for not listing this in the package? doesn't state that you are doing crossplatform right now, neither isn't any other context provided. <advice> Rewrite your question and use a template like this <template> Hello, The current version of $foo is doing $bar fine. Now I want that $foo also does $baz. While doing so, I encountered ..... and did ..... to circumvent that. What is needed to make $foo doing $baz? </template> See also http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html </advice> Cheers Geert Stappers
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