On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 08:00:47AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > I'd create a separate metapackage for that, as I already proposed elsewhere. > > But then dpkg-dev should still depend on that (which would be good and let > it get rid of all the other deps it needs/has).
On the contrary: dpkg-dev should depend on what it needs, and the metapackage should depend on dpkg-dev. This way the only thing that needs to be preserved is the name of the metapackage; at some later date dpkg-dev need not be build-essential (think about Klee's dpkg-source, for example). The idea is that you only need to apt-get install the metapackage and whatever the Build-* fields specify to build a package. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "" (John Cage)
