Re: cdbs and Build-Depends-Indep
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:33:50PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:44, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:11:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 13:36, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > Not having the buildd installing tons of unneeded packages reduce
> > > > build problems and make the logs more readable,
> > >
> > > Reduce build problems? How?
> >
> > The fewer packages you need to install, the less chance there is that
> > one of them will be uninstallable and break your build. (I don't know
> > how big a problem this is in practice, but it certainly does happen from
> > time to time.)
>
> Then those packages are buggy and need to be fixed, obviously. Taking
> this argument farther, we could reduce build problems by including a
> known working copy of gcc in the source code of every package, too...
Well, obviously; but reductio ad absurda notwithstanding, there's no
need to invite more problems than we already have
(http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/, to name but 907).
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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