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		flkenosad 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian bookworm live images now reproducible Question: is Perl the only runtime the Debian build process relies on?

yrro 10 months ago [–]

Any packages with "Essential: yes" (run 'apt list ~E' to see them) are required on any Debian system. Additionally, the 'build-essential' pulls in other packages that must be present to build Debian packages via its dependencies: https://packages.debian.org/sid/build-essential

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