On 10/21/2016 10:16 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
build time dependencies = makedepends + depends runtime dependencies = depends
In other words, the depends are implicitly makedepends, too. You need to build packages in correct order. You approach of ignoring dependencies will fail miserably when one of your "runtime dependecies" will have soname bump. Eg. your package b provides libb.so.1. You rebuild a and it will link agains libb.so.1. Then you rebuild package b and the library changes to libb.so.2. Now the package a is broken, because it is linked against library that is no longer existing.
TLDR: you original approach was correct, the current one with bypassing dependencies is wrong.
Just wanted to add, that if a dependency is needed for runtime but not for building, then it can be listed in the depends inside the actual package() function. In that case, makepkg *still* does the right thing, because it doesn't install a non-build-time dependency... (This is usually relevant in split packages, in which case the makedepends includes all the individual package() depends -- but it could be used to separate runtime-only depends. If it actually was important to pander to this very limited and not-well-justified use-case.) -- Eli Schwartz