On 3/10/18, Jeremy Hansen <jebrhansen+...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just so you know, a "required" dependency on SBo is something the > maintainer decided was required, not necessarily something that is actually > required for compilation/running. It may provide a feature that the > maintainer feels is a big enough deal to make it required on his package.
Thanks for putting that into words. I wish it were part of the SBo documentation. There's a guy on IRC who insists that e.g. my espeak build shouldn't have portaudio listed as a dependency, because espeak can be compiled & run without it... but if you want it to actually *speak* in realtime (instead of rendering to a .wav file), portaudio is required. Another example: gzdoom can be built & run without OpenAL, but in that case it will make NO sound at all, which is definitely not what people expect when they play a game of Doom. _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
