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Re: Increasing regularity of build systems



On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:41:11AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> The specific problem is that with multiple "optional" helper packages
> available, all are being used somewhere to build some package, so, if you
> want to build all packages in Debian, you _must_ first install _all_ of
> the helper packages.

This will be solved by build-time dependencies.  I would have thought
*you* knew that.

> There _is_ a really good reason

What is it?

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