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Re: Build dependencies



On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 09:51:03AM +0200, Andreas Voegele wrote:
> I'm wondering if the package build-essential should be put into the
> control file or not.

No - unless you for some strange reason need to have
/usr/share/doc/build-essential/* installed at build time.

Never put build-essential to Build-Depends* just to draw in its
dependencies - those are guaranteed to be installed in any case at
build time.

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