[pacman-dev] makepkg - separate build nodeps and runtime nodeps

[Brendan Hide]

Good day, all

TL;DR:
Is there a parameter for makepkg that ignores runtime dependencies but 
does not ignore build-time dependencies?

Long version:
I prefer using a custom cower/makepkg script (as a user) followed by 
pacman (as root) over using yaourt. I regularly come across the 
situation where a package has several runtime dependencies that I'm also 
about to build and install. The result used to be the following before I 
realised I could use --nodeps:

build a (error, rundeps b >= old and d >= old)
build b (error, rundeps d >= old
build d (error, rundeps c >= old)
build c
install c
build d
install d
build c
install c
build a
install a
<success>

So of course I now bypass all of this by using makepkg --nodeps:

build a
build b
build c
build d
install a b c d
<success>

Sometimes however that will result in errors due to build time 
dependencies being ignored.

Instead, I would like to specify "--noruntimedeps" - or some similar 
flag, so I see potential build time dependencies immediately but also 
ignore run time dependencies that are going to be installed anyway.

One obscure use I see for this is that it could make it simpler to build 
pkg files that are intended to be installed on a separate system.


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Brendan Hide
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