[arch-general] depends vs. makedepends

[Allan McRae]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> Allan McRae wrote:
>> Magnus Therning wrote:
>>> Allan McRae wrote:
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>> As a general rule, you never should use $startdir in a PKGBUILD.
>>>
>>> Is that written down somewhere?  It'd be nice to have a place to 
>>> refer to when arguing some changes to PKGBUILDs.
>>
>> man PKGBUILD:
>>     startdir was most often used in combination with /src or
>>     /pkg postfixes, but use of the srcdir and pkgdir variables is
>>     preferred.
>>
>> The wording has been made even stronger about not using $startdir for 
>> the next pacman release.
>
> Ah, excellent, I wasn't aware of the existence of that man-page.
>
> Another thing that I've been wondering about is the relationship 
> between 'depends' and 'makedepends'.  The description in the man-page 
> is fairly clear, but just to check I'm wondering if it's correct to 
> say that
>
> 1. a dependency should _never_ be mentioned in both 'depends' and 
> 'makedepends'?
>
> 2. the packages required to build a package is the union of 'depends' 
> and 'makedepends'?

Yes.  They way I think about it is "depends" are needed to run a package 
and "makedepends" are extras needed to build the package.

Allan