Re: New User(sort of) and a packaging question

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:17:33PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Travis Willard wrote:
>
>> I think namcap ignores dependencies in the 'base' group, since
>> everyone is expected to have base installed, maybe?  I'm not 100% sure
>> of its internals in this sense.
>
> That sounds like a reasonable possibility.  To get an idea of whether it's 
> more common to explicitly list base dependencies or leave them out I 
> checked a couple of other packages that depend on ncurses. 
> extra/editors/vim and aur/unsupported/alpine both depend on ncurses but 
> don't have ncurses listed as a dependency.  extra/network/irssi and 
> extra/network/mutt, on the other hand, explicitly list ncurses as a 
> dependency.  So, it looks like there's a mixture in both official and aur 
> based packages.

Being the guy who wrote namcap, I'm pretty sure it doesn't do this at all.

Can I get a copy of the PKGBUILD to test with?  It sounds like it should be
detecting these...

Jason

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