Re: [arch-dev-public] Policy on cross-repo makedepends?

On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:11:31 +1000, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:

Do we have a policy on cross-repo makedepends? i.e. using makedepends in [extra] for packages in [core].

I ask because I want to bring dejagnu to [extra] so I can do "make check" for gcc/binutils/etc in their PKGBUILD. (I currently do it myself using a local dejagnu package).

I would just go ahead do it, but our integrity check script list makedepends repo hierarchy amongst the list of issues.

I think it's fine to have core packages depending on some of the extra repo at build time. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre