Re: Build-Depends vs Depends

[Taylor Kline <taylor.kline@utexas.edu>]

On Jan 2, 2017 4:56 PM, "Octavio Alvarez" <octaldml@alvarezp.org> wrote:

If you are using "apt install" then the packages under Build-Depends are
not installed at all, only those under Depends, and, because they are
needed for the program to work, those are not uninstalled after
installation.

If you are using "apt build-dep" then you are specifically requesting
APT to install packages lised under Build-Depends.

Hope this clarifies everything.

Best regards.

Thanks, that does help a lot, and it helped me to realize that the packages are built on the Debian machines and sent to users already built, so there's no need for the users to install the Build-Depends, right?