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...
