[aur-general] Is base an implicit dependency?

[Giancarlo Razzolini]

Em julho 27, 2021 6:15 Cedric Girard via aur-general escreveu:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to have a confirmation. I encountered a PKGBUILD on AUR 
> that is not building correctly except when systemd is present when 
> building. The maintainer considers the makedeps is implicit as systemd 
> is dragged by base metapackage.
> 
> However devtools only ensures base-devel is present, not base, when 
> building in a clean chroot. And I could not find a mention in the wiki 
> of base expected to be present when writing a PKGBUILD.
> 
> Could you confirm to me what are the guidelines? Does systemd 
> (make)dependency should be explicit or not?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Cédric Girard
> 

The base package is expected to be installed on all Arch Linxu systems,
ever since we moved to a metapackage for base.

Having said that, I'm always in favor of explicit dependency listing, instead
of implicit. This has been discussed a few times, but, for the time being, always
assume base.

Regards,
Giancarlo Razzolini
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