[arch-general] New User(sort of) and a packaging question

[Travis Willard]

On Jan 28, 2008 1:26 PM, Kevin Monceaux <Kevin at rawfeddogs.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Travis Willard wrote:
>
> > That's odd - it looks like it ought to depend on ncurses (and
> > openssl?) at the very least.  You can run pacman -Qo on those files to
> > see what packages they belong to, and stick 'em in the deps.
>
> Well, it gets even stranger.  I tried adding dependencies for openssl,
> ncurses, and readline, which according to ldd are needed.  When I then run
> namcap on the package file is says those dependencies are unneeded.

I think namcap ignores dependencies in the 'base' group, since
everyone is expected to have base installed, maybe?  I'm not 100% sure
of its internals in this sense.

I'd say leave them in - they're clearly needed.