severity 475542 normal thanks On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:47:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > depend on prebuild kernel packages
Well, it doesn't. > Justification: fails to build from source If you use this justification how about giving us at least a hint on how it fails to build? > it is a major nuisance that a lot of those source packages depend on They do not. > prebuild debian kernel packages (i for one know nobody who ever uses > them other than for installation). I do. So at least you know one now. > that dependency does not have any justification in code nor in usability > -- it seems to be there only to annoy. A statement like this makes me wonder if you're really here to report a bug. There certainly is a justification. > at least it should be possible to inform the user before actually > building that those packages are not installed and even better ask him, Why? You don't need them to build. So you might even build for a different system. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go VfL Borussia! Go SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]