Zé Ninguém schrieb:
Hi there. I was wondering if base or base-devel packages should go in a package dependency list or not? What is the current policy about that? I noticed that the instructions to build a clean chroot tell to install base, base-devel and sudo, but does that means the package should be expecting them in a user system?
I recommend putting all dependencies in depends (including base packages), as direct dependencies are used by pacman to order updates - i.e. a package is upgraded after all of its dependencies. This sometimes avoids weird race condition on updates.
However, we usually do not put packages from base-devel into makedepends, although it doesn't hurt to do so. If you build anything from our repositories, make sure you always have base-devel installed. I wouldn't consider a missing makedepend on pkgconfig a bug, but a missing makedepend on anything not in base-devel is definitely a bug.
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