[aur-general] Is base an implicit dependency?

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Le 27/07/2021 à 16:42, Giancarlo Razzolini via aur-general a écrit :
> 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.

Not for makedeps, not for sodeps. See my other email. ;)

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