[arch-projects] [netctl] Time to move

[Jouke Witteveen]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
>>> On 06.02.2013 17:20, Florian Pritz wrote:
>>>> I believe we don't even need tarballs if we have cgit. Just pull
>>>> snapshots from there. I'll submit patches shortly.
>>>
>>> Ok not as easy as I hoped it would be since src/netctl doesn't contain
>>> the version string. It's only added when you create a tarball and I'm
>>> not going to change that without discussion first.
>>
>> Also, building the documentation requires asciidoc, which is not in [core].
>
> That's not a problem. Several [core] packages already use asciidoc as
> makedepends.
>

Quoting an old conversation on this list:

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 19/03/12 07:19, Leonid Isaev wrote:
>> Is it OK at all to have a pkg in [core] makedepend on a pkg from [community]?
>>
>
> Not really...   but is that really needed?  Most projects pregenerate
> their documentation and include it in the release tarball.
>