[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add rundepends keyword to makepkg

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Jul 15 02:27:39 EDT 2008


Thomas Bächler wrote:
> When a package A requires a package B at runtime, but B is not
> needed for building A or B cannot be installed while A is being
> built, rundepends=('B') can be used to add B to A's dependencies,
> omitting the dependency check at built time.
>
>   

Any chance of resubmitting this with the required documentation added 
(PKGBUILD.5.txt and addition to PKGBUILD.proto)?  I think that this 
patch can be included once that is done.

Allan






More information about the pacman-dev mailing list