Re: Introducing Build-Recommends / Build-Core-Depends?
* Steve McIntyre [2011-08-15 11:12 +0100]:
> Andreas Barth wrote:
> >Generic options are usually better IMHO, but well - YMMV.
>
> Often, yes. But also often at extra cost. Where is the added benefit
> here - i.e. what are the use cases? I'm 100% behind making the
> bootstrap phase more simple, but I can't see many others...
Backporting a subset of the binary packages in a source package is one,
e.g., I might want to run the latest emacs23-nox on a server, but not
emacs23.
Regards
Carsten
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