Hi,
I have a box with a cd-writer which also acts as a file/print/internet server, so I run stable (just to be on the safe side). Now I would like to have cdrdao, but that is only available for testing. Of course, I could recompile the whole thing from source and be done with it, but I'd like to do it 'the Debian way'. So:
apt-get source cdrdao
gets cdrdao from testing (I set up apt with stable and testing and APT::Default-Release "stable") but when I want to compile it, it wants to have a bunch of libraries, especially for the GUI. I don't mind to install them all, compile the whole thing and then only install the cdrdao package (without the GUI) and consider it a waste of bandwidth, CPU time and go on with my life without caring. BUT,
If you know you don't want a feature, than you can manually edit debian/control to remove the build-depends on -dev packages that you don't want. You may also need to do a little editing to the ./configure call in debian/rules as well. As long as ./configure exits successfully, you have at least the bare mininum of build-depends installed regardless of what apt-get/dpkg-buildpackage tries to tell you.[Your package just might not have all the features of the official packages]
1) Is there a simple way to install the packages needed to compile cdrdao? (I tried apt-get build-deb cdrdao, but it bailes).
Probably not, if apt-get build-dep bails than you probably have to recursively build/back-port the build-dependencies which may be non-trivial. You may be able to just ignore the build-dependencies as above if you are lucky.
2) Maybe even more important, is there a simple way to get rid of _all_ installed packages which I only needed for compiling cdrdao and won't need since I won't use the GUI?
Write down what you have to install and then apt-get --purge remove it... :) [Though if you don't fiddle with debian/control and/or debian/rules, apt won't let you uninstall the runtime libraries that you needed to install]
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