[PATCH 0/2] Make PowerTOP generic

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at linaro.org
Mon Aug 2 21:03:51 BST 2010


On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:49:56PM -0400, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2010, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > For build environment correctness, it is definitely preferred to avoid
> > following recommends at installation.

>  Yes, but xdeb is more an user frontend, and that's the one pulling
>  devscripts with a depends (because it calls debuild); debuild has a
>  chain of dependencies with recommends which will pull a MTA.

Ah - given the errors about missing /proc, I assumed this was all taking
place in a build chroot.  If this is happening during xdeb installation in a
non-pristine chroot, then I'm ambivalent - you should have /proc mounted
anyway, and I think worrying about Recommends in that context is splitting
hairs. :)

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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