Hi.

Chris Wesley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Jason Thomas wrote:
>> libgdk-libgdk-dev depends on the other things you need.

>Thanks for the tip!  I also have libgd2-xpm listed a build dep.  I didn't
>find a reverse dependency for it from libgdk-pixbuf-dev's chain of
>dependencies, so I kept its entry.

If you're necessarily depending on dev-packages, it seems to be good practice to
include them as a dependency and not count on other packages' build dependencies [0].

Cheers

T.

0. e.g. at
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/debian-mentors-200209/msg00003.html>
there is a 4-1 majority in favor of explicit dependencies.


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