At 7:02 pm, Saturday, March 2 2002, getadog mumbled: > I'm not sure what grep-available is searching, but I don't > have any Build-Depends in /var/lib/dpkg/available. > Exactly that. /var/lib/dpkg/available. > Packages don't need to define any build depends if they only use > standard sort of programs to build. I don't know if autoconf is > one of those, but its used quite often, so I guess it could be. > No, autoconf is optional, so if it makes use of it, it has to Build-Depend on it. Plus, Build-Depends don't follow Suggests, so ... > If you install build-essential with all the suggested packages, > you will have autoconf installed. (gcc suggests autoconf) > Yes, if you use dselect. Not if you use apt.
> I wouldn't mind if apt-get had an --install-suggests option.
>
Jason Gunthorpe (apt's author) disagrees. :-)
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Steve
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