[aur-general] Should "base" packages be listed as dependencies?

Bartłomiej Piotrowski bpiotrowski at archlinux.org
Wed Mar 22 20:56:57 UTC 2017


On 2017-03-22 21:51, Lex Black wrote:
> Base and base-devel are a requirement for using the AUR and those packages shouldn't be added to the depends.
> 
> See the prerequisites on the AUR wiki page.
> 

Well, no.

Someone who builds a package is expected to have base-devel installed.
It does not apply to the base group. And worth noting, base-devel does
not include base.

Bartłomiej


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