On 2022-10-11 13:00:57 (+0200), Levente Polyak wrote:
I'm actually currently working on moving it to a meta-package as well. We didn't do it when introducing `base` as we never really changed it. Now we did with debugedit and face small inconveniences and we are better of to have it as meta-package as well.
Sounds good. While looking at base-devel I also noticed that e.g. fakeroot is in there, but it should actually be a dependency of pacman (as makepkg uses it) and opened a ticket for it [1].
makedepends doesn't actually matter, similar how checkdepends doesn't matter. Our builders always have the full repository set available (minus multilib). We only need to consider runtime depends.
Ah, that's an oversight on my part. All the better! Best, David [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76171 -- https://sleepmap.de