Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Another tex package (texlive-base) to hack

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:01:55 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz schreef:
> >>> Its also possible a number of the Debian packages are built
> >>> against ams because its available - they might be
> >>> re-introduce-able by rebuilding them.
> >> It's weird that they don't know about these dependencies. Packages
> > 
> > Not sure what you mean here.
> 
> I mean: the Debian devs say that they don't know if this package is
> used to build other packages, but then I wonder what 'apt-get
> build-dep' does.
> 

It gets the list of build dependencies specified in the source package.
If the list is specified wrong, it will download the wrong packages.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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