On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:11:31 +1000, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > Do we have a policy on cross-repo makedepends? i.e. using makedepends > in [extra] for packages in [core]. > > I ask because I want to bring dejagnu to [extra] so I can do "make > check" for gcc/binutils/etc in their PKGBUILD. (I currently do it > myself using a local dejagnu package). > > I would just go ahead do it, but our integrity check script list > makedepends repo hierarchy amongst the list of issues.
I think it's fine to have core packages depending on some of the extra repo at build time. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
