[aur-general] Critique my pkgbuild

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Wed Oct 10 13:55:52 UTC 2018


On 10/10/18 9:52 AM, Tinu Weber wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 15:48:31 +0200, Morten Linderud via aur-general wrote:
>>> makedepends=('make')
>>
>> `make` is present in `base-devel` thus shouldn't be a listed dependency. Unsure
>> if its however worth listing it as it's the only needed build-time dependency?
> 
> As it is a git package (and git is not in base-devel), I would argue
> that at least 'git' should go in there.

In fact, the current PKGBUILD has git as a makedepends because you need
it in order to clone the source.

Programs used for downloading the source must be specified in
makedepends unless it is curl since curl is a dependency of the pacman
package.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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