On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:22:01AM -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
So flac (in [current]) has a makedepend on xmms (now in [community]).
In this instance, this seems okay, since if xmms one day goes away, we remove that makedepend and the only bad effect is that there's no xmms plugin.. which is fine if there's no xmms!
But couldn't this be a problem in general? Do we have any rules about makedepends across repositories?
This is a good point. I guess there are three different types of makedepend: the necessary to build (pkgconfig), the necessary for important feature, and the necessary for secondary feature. Everyone would agree that the xmms plugin is a secondary feature. It's important enough to be built if it's available, but not important enough to change repo layouts for ;) I think the necessary to build and the necessary for important feature should probably be available in the same repo or higher. Jason