[aur-general] TU Application - blakkheim

[Konstantin Gizdov]

On 25/08/2022 18:08, T.J. Townsend via aur-general wrote:
> It can be a little confusing for new users because the tooling will print
> warnings about this:
> 
> openiked W: Dependency glibc included but already satisfied
> openiked W: Dependency openssl included but already satisfied
> 
> But Arch's packaging policy says "Do not rely on transitive dependencies
> in any of the PKGBUILD#Dependencies, as they might break if one of the
> dependencies is updated."
> 
> These two things seem to be in conflict with each other, so I went with
> the policy statement as the deciding rule.
Sure, but the issue is that 'glibc' is in the 'base' group that will
exist on any Arch Linux install. There is a bit of debate whether we
include these or not. Most people normally do not as it's a given on any
system. In any case, 'glibc' is not really a transitive dependency in
that sense.

>> makedepends=('linux-headers' 'bison' 'cmake')
>>   'bison' is in base-devel group so no need to include it here.
> 
> I can remove that, but it also sounds like a transitive dependency.
> Is base-devel an exception? Maybe the documentation on this issue could
> be clarified a bit.
Again, this is specific to the build tools. 'makedepends' is meant for
dependencies needed for building the package only and not at runtime.
Therefore, when you are building the package you are guaranteed to have
'base-devel' group installed. So it's not needed and sometimes frowned
upon to include these packages in makedepends.

The general idea behind all this is that these arrays should include
only things that are not already guaranteed to exist for minimalism,
tidiness, reducing confusion when someone reads your PKGBUILD,
maintainability and so on.

And you do kinda start to pick up on these with experience because once
in a blue moon they do break your stuff and you remember it. :)


-- 
Regards,
Konstantin
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