Re: Build-Depends vs Depends
Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu> writes:
> Thank you, Octavio. Does this mean apt
You mean ‘dpkg’.
APT is a tool to fetch packages and to make requests to ‘dpkg’. It is
‘dpkg’'s job to do the actual install/remove of each individual package.
> will temporarily install the Build-Depends packages and remove them
> after the installation completes?
No.
The purpose of the build process is to generate a product that is ready
to install. The build dependencies are not needed after the build is
complete.
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