Note that this package recommends that you install a C compiler. A C
compiler will certainly be necessary if you want to use Inline to do
programming in C. However, a C compiler is not necessary if you're using
Inline with some other language, or if you are using a program, such as
grepmail, that is compiled using Inline::MakeMaker and ships the compiled C
code. Therefore, this package does not depend on a C compiler, it only
recommends one.

-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>