I'm building Classpath on a virgin Debian system and I was quite
surprised at some of the package dependencies for the classpath package.

Beyond the dependencies listed in the documentation, plus libx11-dev,
libgtk2.0-dev, jikes, and their dependencies, we have:

        antlr
        build-essential
        cdbs
        comerr-dev
        debhelper
        dpatch
        dssi-dev
        gettext
        gjdoc
        html2text
        intltool-debian
        ladspa-sdk
        libart-2.0-dev
        libasound2-dev
        libaudio-dev
        libgl1-mesa-dev
        libgl1-mesa-dri
        libglu1-mesa-dev
        libglu1-xorg-dev
        libjack0.100.0-dev
        libjpeg62-dev
        libkadm55
        libkrb5-dev
        liblcms1-dev
        libmng-dev
        libmysqlclient15off
        libpq-dev
        libqt4-dev
        libqt4-qt3support
        libqt4-sql
        libsqlite0
        libssl-dev
        libxmu-dev
        libxmu-headers
        libxt-dev
        libxtst-dev
        mesa-common-dev
        mysql-common po-debconf
        x11proto-record-dev
        xlibmesa-gl-dev
        zip
        libgconf2-dev
        libidl-dev
        liborbit2-dev
        libpopt-dev
        orbit2

I'm especially surprised about the mysql dependency. Is all this really
necessary?
-- 
Chris Burdess

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