[arch-general] should gawk be in group base-devel?

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Jun 3 11:03:47 EDT 2008


2008/6/3 Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org>:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Neil Darlow <neil at darlow.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It is often quoted that, for package building purposes, it is assumed a user
>> has packages in group base-devel installed.
>
> Ideally, the user should have BOTH base and base-devel installed for
> package building.

+1.
When user omits any package from base - it's on his/her own risk,
it is assumed that base is installed on every system,
so packages from base are not mentioned in (make)depends
(ok, some cases exists, but they are exceptions from the rule, and
should had not exist).

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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