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

[Alad Wenter]

On 10/21/2016 12:31 PM, Brendan Hide wrote:
> 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.
>
>
... Or maybe you should just implement dependency resolution in your 
script? You can retrieve the needed information trivially from .SRCINFO.