# from Jonathan Yu on Sunday 19 January 2014: >It would be nice if we had a better solution (one that did not require >the cost of a "dummy" Alien module, which results in a pretty >empty-looking package on distributions with binary-only packages, such >as Debian). But, again, this seems to have been the usual approach we >followed historically.
Hi Jonathan, If the dependency is in prereqs->build->requires, that shouldn't translate into a binary prereq. So, a distro should be able to skip packaging the alien modules, no? --Eric
