manpages-devel in build-essential

Josh Kress josh at kinjoo.com
Thu Nov 11 14:41:53 CST 2004


Am Donnerstag, den 11.11.2004, 11:58 -0800 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:10:54PM +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.
> 
> build-essential, as its name implies, is what you _need_ in order to build
> any C/C++ program.  It's not meant to provide a complete development
> environment.
> 

Sounds plausible to me. Thanks for the enlightenment!

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