As for the rest of you post, which is is far more important/interesting that this technical point, I entirely agree. :-)
"build-essential" is for building Debian (and derivatives) packages. To
'make', well... you only need the "make" package, which is a dependency of
"build-essential".
- [Trisquel-users] Re : No make command? magicbanana
- Re: [Trisquel-users] No make command? alonivtsan
