CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Another deficiency is that it'd be nice if apt-get told you what dependencies >you needed with a source deb. This way you could have it get the other >sources upfront instead of spending time compiling and only finding out >later that something you needed wasn't there. Ofcourse, this gets slightly >more complicated with the previous want of mine. :) > >Again, one step closer if that were available. :)
'apt-get build-dep packagename' with the apt in unstable will get the required build dependencies. There should be a script in dpkg 1.9.0 which checks them, too. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
