On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Eric Belanger <belanger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Packages in extra shouldn't makedepends or depends on packages from > community. Xmms is an exception. The person who initially moved it to > community didn't checked if it was required by other packages in extra. As I > maintain xmms in community and am a dev, we decided not to bother moving > xmms back in extra. Plus, it is only required as a makedepends. At least, > that's the current state of things. Then we could "suggest" official maintainers to install packages that are needed for full feature with a comment inside build(). Otherwise offending packages should be documented somewhere, because there's no hint anywhere that such problems exist. The only "automagic" alternative I see is the addition of a crossdeps field in PKGBUILDs. What could it do? A lot of things... notify the user at installation time. Notify the maintainer at compile time. Check if the packager has a "buildcrossdeps" option set in makepkg.conf and, if he does, treat them like makedepends. But I don't know. It is a bit overkill for our situation, but other pacman-based distros that have a different repo structure could make great use of it. Corrado
