On 22/10/16 00:46, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 10/21/2016 10:16 AM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: >> build time dependencies = makedepends + depends >> runtime dependencies = depends >> >> In other words, the depends are implicitly makedepends, too. You need >> to build packages in correct order. You approach of ignoring >> dependencies will fail miserably when one of your "runtime >> dependecies" will have soname bump. >> Eg. your package b provides libb.so.1. You rebuild a and it will link >> agains libb.so.1. Then you rebuild package b and the library changes >> to libb.so.2. Now the package a is broken, because it is linked >> against library that is no longer existing. >> >> TLDR: you original approach was correct, the current one with >> bypassing dependencies is wrong. > > Just wanted to add, that if a dependency is needed for runtime but not > for building, then it can be listed in the depends inside the actual > package() function. > > In that case, makepkg *still* does the right thing, because it doesn't > install a non-build-time dependency... > > (This is usually relevant in split packages, in which case the > makedepends includes all the individual package() depends -- but it > could be used to separate runtime-only depends. If it actually was > important to pander to this very limited and not-well-justified use-case.) >
Correct. I'm sure there was a bug report asking for rundepends=() to be added to the PKGBUILD spec. I can't seem to find it, so I guess that was rejected! A
