On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:58:14 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > In Ubuntu, we try to keep the size of our "main" component under > control, and packages in main are only allowed to build-depend or depend > on other packages in main; this lets us use main as a set of packages on > which we offer better-quality support and so on. As a result I found > myself looking at the long build-dependency list of lynx-cur;
Great! Thanks for your efforts. > It seems that a build-dependency isn't actually necessary for this; you > can get configure to detect the path you want by means of an environment > variable. I've attached the patch I applied in Ubuntu to remove the need > for the build-dependency on ncompress, but perhaps you'd like to extend > this to other build-dependencies that aren't truly needed at build time? At present, I only removed ncompress but as you suggested there are some more which can be handled with environment variables. I'll check further and reduce number of packages of Build-Depends later. Thanks for your advice. Regards, 2008-11-21(Fri) -- Debian Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org> Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
