Re: Source Depends

[Laurent Martelli <martelli@iie.cnam.fr>]

>>>>> "Paulo" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <baptista@cos.ufrj.br> writes:

  Paulo>     Hi all, I got a new machine at home (k6-350) and have
  Paulo> only slink. So I begin to use debget for fetching source
  Paulo> packages of potato and compile. I have only a small question:
  Paulo> How to know what packages depends on other using debian
  Paulo> sources?  For example, I want go compile gimp 1.1.5, but what
  Paulo> else is necessary from potato? Sometimes the name from source
  Paulo> changes too. The problem doesnt get resolved if I saw in the
  Paulo> packages binary file...  Thanks, PH

There's currently no way tell, except by being careful during the
execution of the configure script. But I've heard the concept of
source dependency has been discussed on the devel list.

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Laurent Martelli
martelli@iie.cnam.fr