C programs Solved

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 20:23 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> I was slightly mistaken about the purpose of build-essential.  After
>> checking the description I now see that it is needed for building
>> Debian packages.
> 
> aptitude show build-essential
> " If you do not plan to build Debian packages, you don't need this
> package.  Moreover this package is not required for building Debian
> packages."                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Confusing, isn't it :)

Not really.  You don't need it at all if you're not building .debs.  You
_still_ don't need it for building .debs, but it helps :-)

otoh, I agree that it's just simpler to suggest build-essential than to
figure out exactly which packages a particular developer is going to need
-- 
derek