[arch-general] Why irrelevant updates?

[Daniel Micay]

On 13/05/15 02:52 AM, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2015 02:27:14 -0400
> Daniel Micay <danielmicay at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The base and base-devel groups are installed in the containers used for
>> building, so it's quite sane to assume they're present as build deps.
> 
> That hasn't been true for a while now. Build roots, by default, only include
> base-devel.

Oh right. Packages can't really get away with implicit deps on base in
many cases then. It'll break if they try to link against a library or if
they actually have a check() function running a test suite. I think it
can be considered a bug if running the program in check() doesn't work.

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