[arch-projects] [devtools] Question about installing runtime dependencies at build time

[Johannes Löthberg]

Quoting Emil Velikov via arch-projects (2017-08-08 18:45:20)
> Hello Arch developers,
> 
> After an upstream issue reported by Laurent Carlier (aka lordheavy)
> Istarted wondering why builds fail on his end and not my (Arch)
> machine.
> The key difference seems to be that he's using devtools, whereas I do not.
> 
> After a further chat, I got the impression that devtools installs
> runtime dependencies before/alongside(?) as the PKGBUILD build/install
> target is issued.
> 
> This doesn't sound quite right to me. Shouldn't it be done, only on
> runtime scenarios - say the check target?
> 
> Of course, I could be missing something so if anyone has some pointers
> that will be appreciated.
> 

This is slightly confusingly written, but all packages listed in the 
depends and the makedepends arrays will always be installed before 
building a package.  makedepends should only list packages that are only 
required when building, not all packages required when building

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