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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 17:59:03 +0100
From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
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To: DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP installer [Was: Script language for installer]
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> do they need Make, or Patch, or GDB (these are all "C development"
> tools).

I can't imagine not having 'make' installed. Maybe a quick survey here and
in c.o.m.d would yield a list of "expected" packages needed for C
development, etc.?

> So I would suggest to abandon the desire to make it both flexible and
> fool-proof, and instead come up with 2-3 basic packages, e.g. "just
> C", "just C and C++"; and for Emacs, Perl, and the likes recommend
> that they download all the auxiliary tools as well (a list of just
> what ``all the auxiliary tools'' are would be nice).

This is where the distinction between 'requires' and 'depends-on' is
important. The 'depends-on' would be the recommended list you speak of.