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Re: Possible trimming of build dependencies



Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:43:22PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
> ...
>> Ahem, I see, mistakes happen, thus clean chroots (and note to myself: clean 
>> apt caches;-) are to be used for such tweaking. In fact, other packages' 
>> {Build-}dependencies change over time, it is pretty common since new versions 
>> are uploaded, improvements are introduced, etc, so we always check when we 
>> need to. To be honest, xmlto's own dependencies (in Debian unstable) look sane 
>> to me, so you might be witnessed some transient inefficiency which has been 
>> subsequently corrected lately.
> 
> Another issue is dependency behavior difference between pure apt-get and
> interactive deselect/aptitude.  The default of the latter pulls in
> "recommends".  
> 

Apt-get pulls Recommends by default since Lenny.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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