On 18/03/2019 00.35, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > [2019-03-18 00:25:09 +0100] Alad Wenter via arch-dev-public: >> Assuming we implement this group or meta-package as something of policy, >> i.e. every repository package is assumed to depend on it. This would then >> make base similar to base-devel, except for depends() instead of >> makedepends(). >> >> With base-devel, we've always encouraged people to remove the makedepends >> already in that group. Would we do the same for "base", i.e. remove >> dependencies that, beforehand, were explicit? > > We've been doing this for as long as I can remember. > > Only 156 packages have glibc in their depends array. > > Cheers. >
We is very generic term. I'm not doing it. If your package links to libc.so, put it into deps. Bartłomiej
