[aur-general] Go package dependencies

[Levente Polyak]

On 02/28/2018 02:23 AM, Adam Levy via aur-general wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am co-maintaining a few AUR packages written in Golang and I just ran
> namcap on my built package. I got the following output on a few of my
> golang packages:
> 
> $ namcap influxdb-1.4.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> influxdb E: Dependency glibc detected and not included (libraries
> ['usr/lib/libpthread.so.0', 'usr/lib/libc.so.6'] needed in files
> ['usr/bin/influx_inspect', 'usr/bin/influx_stress', 'usr/bin/influx',
> 'usr/bin/influx_tsm', 'usr/bin/influxd'])
> 
> However 'glibc' is in the base group, and I thought that it wasn't
> necessary to declare dependencies from the base group since it should
> always be installed on a fresh OS install. Am I wrong about this point?
> Should I be including 'glibc' as a dependency in this package? Should I be
> including 'bash' as a dependency in packages with scripts that use bash?
> 
> Thank you!
> Adam Levy (alaskanarcher)
> 

Actually there is no strict rule that base must be installed, its just a
strong recommendation. While most systems would be quite useless without
having glibc, its still a first level dependencies that a package uses
and therefor should be declared explicitly and not implicitly.
Opinions vary, but if you ask me its cleaner to explicitly state first
level dependencies, no matter from where they may be implicitly
available (so yes, personally i add both, glibc and bash if required).

cheers,
Levente

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