[aur-general] should make be in makedepends?

Callan Barrett wizzomafizzo at gmail.com
Tue May 6 02:11:54 EDT 2008


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Neil Darlow <neil at darlow.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Aren't there exceptions? Doesn't it make sense to include things which a
> configure script might determine as optional, e.g. gettext?
>
>  I think studying the output of configure and making a reasoned decision on
> what to put in makedepends is often better that just assuming the presence
> of something.

Yes, but in general you would just assume everything in base is
installed. That doesn't mean you throw out all reason as well.

-- 
Callan Barrett




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