[aur-general] Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects a good idea and who should decide on that ?

[Doug Newgard]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:19:37 +0200
Lone_Wolf <lonewolf at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> recently a mesa developer contacted me and asked me to change mesa-git 
> to depend on released llvm/clang instead of llvm/clang trunk.
> 
> He did convince me there's a demand for such a package.
> 
> 
> Currently people wanting to build mesa-git against released versions 
> need to edit the pkgbuild and make a few changes (not documented atm).
> 
> I have been building mesa trunk against llvm trunk since mesa started 
> using llvm and tailored the package to my personal workflow and style.
> 
> Adjusting the mesa-git PKGBUILD to use repo llvm/clang would force me to 
> either change my workflow or maintain a package I don't use in that form.
> 
> I'd probably stop maintaining mesa-git.
> 
> 
> I do feel there's an underlying issue here that concerns us all as 
> stated in the title:
> 
> Are AUR VCS packages that depend on AUR VCS packages from other projects 
> a good idea and who should decide on that?
> 
> 
> Lone_Wolf

Is there any reason it depends specifically on the -git package? Most of the
time, you depend on the release package and those that use the -git version
just build against that, no other changes needed.