I demand that Goswin von Brederlow may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I demand that Matthias Julius may or may not have written... >> [snip] >>> I think a more elegant solution would be if aptitude had a command to >>> install build-depends. >> <AOL>. >>> It could attach a new flag to a package that causes aptitude to treat >>> build-depends just like depends of that package. [...]
>> Maybe... just installing the build-depends with any necessary marking as >> automatically installed would be good enough - possibly regardless of >> whether they're explicitly mentioned as build-dependencies? > Then they get removed the next time you run aptitude and not when you stop > using the source. Well, yes. Perhaps I should have explicitly qualified that - "but only if they're depended upon by other build dependencies" - but "any necessary marking" seemed to cover it. Marking them all would indeed be daft. -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | + Use more efficient products. Use less. BE MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. Steer clear of incorrect forms of verbs that have snuck in the language. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
