On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:26 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:03:38AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > m-a don't need build-essential. It needs the compiler (nothing else like
> > libc headers) for the kernel. The debian linux headers already depends
> > against the correct compiler.
> 
> Maybe so, but "m-a prepare" installs it. I don't know why it doesn't
> just depend on it instead.
Perhaps because the specific compiler needed depends on what the
current kernel was compiled with? I thought that was the reason
linux-headers depended on a specific compiler version.

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Edward Allcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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