Hi Steve, In the case where you strongly feel that these packages should be installed these should (read must) be recommended packages as long as their absence does not break unixodbc-dev. This is the case for the dependencies on gtkodbcconfig0 and libodbcinstq1.
Apparently, your view of what people could use the unixodbc-dev package for (developing unixodbc library applications) differs from what a _lot_ of people actually use it for (building these applications without ever changing one line of code). -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 3000 Fax. +31 20 668 3167 PGP Key fingerprint = 6367 DFE9 5CBC 0737 7D16 B3F6 048A 02BF DC93 94EC "I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end." -- Douglas Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]