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Hi Boruch

On 14-09-14 19:59, Boruch Baum wrote:
> apt-get install fpc requires installing a number of really unnecessary audio 
> packages. In my case: fp-units-multimedia-2.6.4 fpc-2.6.4 libpulse-dev 
> libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev

Please explain why they are really unnecessary. AFAICT if you are
compiling the right pascal code, you need these packages to be
successful. In the past we have been discussing what we should do with
these kind of "dependencies" and the opinions vary. I think we should
put these in "recommends" (but at least in suggests) although if we do
it for all the needed -dev packages, the tree will become huge.

Paul


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