Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make PowerTOP generic

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 03:49:56PM -0400, Loïc Minier wrote:

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010, Steve Langasek wrote:

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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. :)