My workplace requires us to build our own binaries.

As a government wacky requirement, we can't take any packages from strangers - we have to build our own.

Nevermind that this doesn't actually necessarily make things any more secure.

I'm trying to build Nessus so it can manage some network service checks to make sure we're only running the services we expect on servers, on some kind of regular basis.

Here's my dependency tree so far - just the packages I've had to install myself:

Nessus
	Requires OpenSSL
	Recommends NMAP
		requires bison
			requires GNU M4
		requires flex
	Requires GTK+
		requires pkgconfig
		requires glib
		requires atk
			requires bzip2 (just to open the archive!)
		requires pango
			requires freetype
				requires GNU make
		requires libpng
		requires libjpeg

I think I'll go mad now.