manpages-devel in build-essential

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 20:10 +0100, Josh Kress wrote:

> I just wondered, whether it might be good idea to include the
> development manpages to the dependencies of build-essential. One could
> argue that it might be logical to look up system calls when you install
> gcc.
> 
It isn't build-essential by the Debian definition.  That package simply
depends on (and provides the list of) packages for which it is not
required to Build-Depend on unless you need a later version.

A better solution would be to have some kind of ubuntu-devel
meta-package that installed a suitable development environment, I
wouldn't know what to put in that environment though.

Perhaps build-essential, autoconf, automake, libtool, pkg-config,
documentation, various -dev packages, etc.

Should it also include the GNOME -dev packages?

Scott
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