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GrayShade 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser...

> A "release" should allow to build the project without installing dependencies that are only there for compilation.

Like a compiler or some -devel packages?

bhaak 10 months ago [–]

If the compiler is some customized or hard to build version then yes, they should be included.

The more steps you add to get to the final product the more likely it is to run into problems.

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