Runtime dependencies not required for building

[Archange]

Hi,

Le 01/08/2022 à 18:37, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera a écrit :
> Some packages I maintain have a lot of runtime dependencies that are not
> required at build time (this is common for packages which only ship scripts and
> have no tests).
>
> When building on a clean chroot, I have to wait for hundreds of megabytes in
> packages to be copied and installed. This is rather inefficient, since these
> are not required. However, the `makedepends` ARE required in this case, but
> there is no overlap.
>
> I'd like some way to indicate that a PKGBUILD does not require its runtime
> dependencies for building the package.
>
> Perhaps something like `options=(!depends)`
>
> I'd like to hear feedback on this, thoughts?

Just set the depends array inside the package() function, this way they 
won’t be installed during the build.

Regards,
Bruno/Archange