[aur-general] question about git package as a dependency

[Lieven Moors]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:20:43AM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
> On 27 November 2013 04:43, Lieven Moors <lievenmoors at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think technically, ntk-git should provide
> > ntk, and non-daw-git should depend on some git-release
> > of ntk.
> 
> You can depend on ntk-git, but a better approach is to have ntk-git
> provide ntk, and depend on that -- if devel functionality of ntk is
> not required by non-daw-git. So just nudge the ntk-git maintainer.

With devel functionality, do you mean header files? Wouldn't they
be needed to build non-daw-git anyway?

The problem is that ntk-git has been in a state of constant flux,
and non-daw-git would often refuse to build, unless you rebuild 
ntk-git first...