From: "'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
To: "Moessbauer,
Felix (FT RPD CPC OES-DE)" <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>,
isar-users <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: user_manual: Shorten package dependency list
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 10:07:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba6132dc-4362-40bd-a4e2-1b32d14dd485@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ef79a225e4dd88e8150feb5f8e76e4b3efc3645.camel@siemens.com>
On 04.11.26 09:44, Moessbauer, Felix (FT RPD CPC OES-DE) wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-11-04 at 07:51 +0100, 'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users wrote:
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>
>> bzip2 and xz-utils are already required by pristine-tar and dpkg-dev,
>> and zstd is needed by reprepro. Shortening this list makes user's life
>> easier when setting up a build env manually.
>
> Hmm... While this does not make any difference regarding the set of
> installed packages, it will make a difference on updates in case
> package dependencies change. At least in Debian the policy is to depend
> on all direct dependencies, even if these are anyways pulled in via
> transitive deps.
>
> At least zstd is definitely a direct dependency, as the sstate cache
> needs it.
I'm pretty sure that your package list is not built from such direct
dependencies.
Jan
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