Re: Circular Build-Depends; am I their only enemy?
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:05:05PM +0000, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:07:53PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 01:53, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> >
> > > Am I the only people who things that, ideally, one could build Debian
> > > from source, starting with only Essential and Build-Essential packages?
> > >
> > Yup, you're the only one.
> >
> > I'd be entertained how you intend to resolve the fact that "make" uses
> > "make" to be built. (Or that "gcc" requires a C compiler!)
>
> make and gcc *are* build-essential.
But ghc6, for example, isn't and has the same bootstrapping issues.
> That's wonderful. Especially when you are porting to new architecture -
> the binary packages are real easy to obtain out of thin air.
Indeed - and as such I have to do some work cross-porting from an
existing arch. All comes with the maintainer's hat.
A problem with what you are suggesting where build-recommends would work
is that we would have packages built and in the archive that are not
complete until another upload is done once the other build-recommends
are built - and the maintainer might not even know if it's all handled
silently like normal builds.
Thanks
Ian
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