12 Dec
2018
12 Dec
'18
12:59 p.m.
On Mon, 2018-12-10 at 11:17 -0500, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:
The package_*() depends override globally listed depends. If pikaur does not try to install the global depends together with the makedepends before the build happens... this is a bug in pikaur and pikaur is broken.
This is regardless of whether the PKGBUILD "should" use global depends.
I wasn't insisting that the original package was wrong, I was reproducing the bug that Storm asked about. I wouldn't be surprised if other AUR helpers have this issue too. Thanks for clarifying the correct behaviour; I've created an issue for this. Best, Bert.