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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Edward Avis wrote:
[what BuildRequires dependencies should source packages include? Surely
packages like bash should be considered 'essential' and don't need to be
listed.]
>How about this as a baseline: the setup you get when you buy a Mandrake
>boxed set and choose the 'newbie install' hitting Enter for every
>option. This includes make and gcc, but not that many -devel packages.
And how about a package 'essential-devel' which depends on gcc, make and
all the other devel stuff included in a Mandrake default install. This
package wouldn't contain any files, it would just act as a convenient
collection of dependencies, so that if essential-devel is installed you
know the basic stuff is there.
Packages could then list:
BuildRequires: essential-devel >= 8.0
along with separate BuildRequires lines for more exotic stuff that isn't
part of the basic install.
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Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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