[arch-dev-public] wine dependencies

[Travis Willard]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Eduardo Romero <k3nsai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 23:36 -0400, Dale Blount wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:28 -0400, Eduardo Romero wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 20:40 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> > > Now we have a maintainer for wine again (thanks Eduardo, users were
>> > > complaining about wine constantly), I want to bring up a small issue:
>> > >
>> > > Running namcap on wine reveals that there are lots of unnecessary
>> > > dependencies. I also saw that some of the dependencies are possibly only
>> > > makedepends. Eduardo, can you look at that and give some feedback?
>> > >
>> > Yeah, working on that right now, will try to make my best to clean up
>> > this PKGBUILD.
>>
>> Just be careful... there are some dependencies noted in the PKGBUILD
>> that are optional and enabled via a wine config option.  If you add
>> them, people tend to complain a lot.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
> I have removed all dependencies that are optional and made them
> makedepends, the wine package now has all the features it can have but
> are going to be enabled by the user, installing the corresponding
> package. For example, alsa-lib,, freeglut and libungif are now
> makedepends, but I made a wine.install that tells you which package is
> needed for which feature.

Use the optdepends field, that's what it's there for:

from man pacman:
       optdepends (array)
           An array of optional packages (and accompanying reasons)
           that are not essential to the package, but would offer increased
           functionality or other features when installed. optdepends are
           currently for informational purposes only and are not utilized by
           pacman during dependency resolution. The format should be
           similar to the following:

               optdepends=(´fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user´)