On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:33:17PM -0800, Edward S. Peschko wrote: > ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/build-essential/build-essential_6.tar.gz That directory happens to contain build-essential packages for all architectures. > or equivalent mirror, as an entry in a tarred, gzipped file that needs > uncompressing, inside the list essential-packages-list, and only available > after one does the make on the the package to generate it, and after someone > downloads a script language named 'hugs' to do preprocessing? You shouldn't have to build build-essential. It's just a dummy package depending on those essential packages. > Package: build-essentials > Build-Depends: base-files, base-passwd, bash, bsdutils, debianutils, diff, etc.. $ apt-cache show build-essential Package: build-essential Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc (>= 3:3.3), g++ (>= 3:3.3), make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.4.1.19) (abbreviated) > There has *got* to be a good reason for this. I just can't see it. That's the whole problem. -- Joshua Kwan
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