Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.3-1+b1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/share/man/man8/aptitude-curses.8.gz
We read build-depends, build-dep Satisfy the build-dependencies of a package. Each package name may be a source package, in which case the build dependencies of that source package are installed; otherwise, binary packages are found in the same way as for the "install" command, and the build-dependencies of the source packages that build those binary packages are satisfied. If the command-line parameter --arch-only is present, only architecture-dependent build dependencies (i.e., not Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Conflicts-Indep) will be obeyed. OK but then mention what command(s) can then remove all those packages that got installed so that we are back at the state where we were before using build-depends.