Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:08 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: [...] > looking at a few of the packages pulled in when upgrading devscripts: > > esound-clients > esound-common > libesd0 > libaudiofile0 > > what scripts actually make use of audio in general or esound in > particular?
None. They're also not in the Recommends list. Ah - this looks like another side effect of gnuplot; libesd0 is a dependency of libwxgtk2.6-0. > gnuplot > gnuplot-nox > gnuplot-x11 > > why is it pulling in both gnuplot-nox and gnuplot-x11? devscripts Recommends: gnuplot because it's required for plotchangelog to work. gnuplot itself Depends: on both -nox and -x11. > libwxbase2.6-0 > libwxgtk2.6-0 > > what is pulling these in? gnuplot-nox by the look of it. > i'll attempt to track down what exactly is pulling in what, but just > wanted to mention those off the bat. Thanks. Any suggestions for changes that don't involve leaving scripts non-functional would be very useful. > this bug is making it harder to keep devscripts installed on a simple > chroot environment that used for test builds of packages, where many of > the devscripts utilities are very useful. i could manually remove the > packages, and hopefully apt will remember that, i guess. It's supposed to. :) > it also has the side-effect of bloating pbuilder environments, which > kind of defeats the purpose of pbuilder, as it will be harder to track > down missing build-dependencies. i haven't verified if fresh pbuilder > installs include devscripts or not. The pbuilder I use for building devscripts doesn't include it. (Created late December by the look of the file dates). It's priority Optional so would only be pulled in as a dependency. Regards, Adam -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
