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Re: cleaning up lib*-dev packages?



I demand that Matthias Julius may or may not have written...

[snip]
> I think a more elegant solution would be if aptitude had a command to
> install build-depends.

<AOL>.

> It could attach a new flag to a package that causes aptitude to treat
> build-depends just like depends of that package. [...]

Maybe... just installing the build-depends with any necessary marking as
automatically installed would be good enough - possibly regardless of whether
they're explicitly mentioned as build-dependencies?

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