[aur-general] Is base an implicit dependency?

[Cedric Girard]

Hi,

On 2021-07-27 13:17, Archange wrote:

>> I am misusing devtools feature to build in a clean chroot, then? Or is 
>> there a bug in those tools?
> 
> No, you’re not, and systemd must be added to makedepends if required
> at build time. The maintainer is wrong.
> 
> systemd is not part of base-devel, and base is not part of official
> building chroots (they were reasons for this, but I don’t remember
> them at the moment).
> 
> Also, I would still keep base content in dependencies (when required)
> in any case, because we could drop packages from base at any point
> (they are open tickets for some of them already).

Thank you for your clear answer. This concurs with what I thought.

Regards,

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Cedric Girard