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@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 = Setup PVE Development Environment =
 
 0.  Read https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation
-1.  Install Debian 9 'stretch'
+1.  Install Debian 9 'stretch' (you can also start from a PVE installation and
+    skip step 2 - 5, 7 - 11)
 2.  Configure the network interface(s)
 3.  Change the IP address of your hostname for proper name resolution
     in /etc/hosts
@@ -34,10 +35,27 @@
 
 = Install build prerequisites for development environment =
 
-12. run:
+NOTE: this is a huge and probably outdated list intended to be able to build
+(almost) all packages, from the UI/API components to backend components to our
+Linux Kernel.  If you only want to hack on specific topics you won't need most
+of those.
+Instead we try to have a complete list of build dependencies in each source
+repositories 'debian/control' file. If you run `make deb` dpkg-buildpackage
+will stop and tell you if you miss some required packages.
 
-apt-get install build-essential git git-email debhelper \
-autotools-dev autogen dh-autoreconf dkms doxygen check pkg-config \
+12. For installing the most important, always needed, ones run:
+
+apt-get install build-essential git git-email debhelper pve-doc-generator
+
+Additionally, for quickly installing (almost) all build dependencies run:
+
+WARNING: this list is almost for sure outdated! Use the build-deps definitions
+defined in each package! You could install `devscripts` (huge package, but nice
+helpers) and use:
+# mk-build-deps --install
+in the top-level directory of a git repository.
+
+apt-get install autotools-dev autogen dh-autoreconf dkms doxygen check pkg-config \
 groff quilt dpatch automake autoconf libtool lintian libdevel-cycle-perl \
 libjson-perl libcommon-sense-perl liblinux-inotify2-perl libio-stringy-perl \
 libstring-shellquote-perl dh-systemd rpm2cpio libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 \
@@ -57,12 +75,12 @@ python-pyparsing libfilesys-df-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl \
 libfile-readbackwards-perl libanyevent-perl libanyevent-http-perl \
 unzip liblocale-po-perl libfile-sync-perl cstream \
 lzop dtach apt-transport-https hdparm gdisk parted ttf-dejavu-core \
-liblzma-dev dosfstools mtools libxen-dev libfuse-dev corosync-dev \
-libcpg-dev libquorum-dev libcmap-dev libuuid-perl \
-libqb-dev libapparmor-dev docbook2x libcap-dev dh-apparmor \
-graphviz libseccomp-dev libglib-perl libgtk3-perl libnss3-dev libdlm-dev \
-libudev-dev asciidoc-dblatex source-highlight libiscsi-dev libiscsi7 \
-librsvg2-bin
+liblzma-dev dosfstools mtools libxen-dev libfuse-dev libcpg-dev libquorum-dev \
+libcmap-dev libuuid-perl libqb-dev libapparmor-dev docbook2x libcap-dev \
+dh-apparmor graphviz libseccomp-dev libglib-perl libgtk3-perl libnss3-dev \
+libdlm-dev libudev-dev asciidoc-dblatex source-highlight libiscsi-dev \
+libiscsi7 librsvg2-bin libarchive-dev libgpgme-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
+libtest-mockmodule-perl libjemalloc-dev libjpeg-dev
 
 
 = Compile PVE packages from Source =