On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:41:31 -0700
Don Stewart
Does anyone have a policy document they can point to for the following:
"No package should ever be listed in both depends and makedepends."
Cheers, Don
There is a message on the arch-general list in which a developer (Allan) confirms this when asked for clarification: http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-general@archlinux.org/msg05439.html Although not stated in those words, the explanations of "depends" and "makedepends" in the PKGBUILD man page and in the following wiki articles make it clear that the two are mutually exclusive: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_package_making_HOW-TO_-_with_gu... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Building_Packages_in_Arch_Linux Regards, Xyne