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Re: Possible trimming of build dependencies



Hi,

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 09:43:22PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
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> 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".  


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