On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 11:08:12AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> 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.

This is specifically why they only got upgraded to Recommends.  You can
remove (or not install in the first place) what you don't need and then
you don't have to worry about it.

> 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.

devscripts is in no way automatically installed by pbuilder, so this has
no effect on that ... ooh, just noticed that 93 packages Build-Depend on
devscripts.  buildds don't install Recommends by default though, so this
still doesn't affect pbuilder, sbuild, et.al.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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