On 2022-10-11 13:00:57 (+0200), Levente Polyak wrote:
> I'm actually currently working on moving it to a meta-package as well.
> We didn't do it when introducing `base` as we never really changed it.
> Now we did with debugedit and face small inconveniences and we are
> better of to have it as meta-package as well.

Sounds good. While looking at base-devel I also noticed that e.g.
fakeroot is in there, but it should actually be a dependency of pacman
(as makepkg uses it) and opened a ticket for it [1].

> makedepends doesn't actually matter, similar how checkdepends doesn't
> matter. Our builders always have the full repository set available
> (minus multilib). We only need to consider runtime depends.

Ah, that's an oversight on my part.
All the better!

Best,
David

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/76171

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