On Sat, May 17, 2025, at 11:45, Pocket wrote: > > > On 5/17/25 5:21 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2025-05-17 at 08:03 +0000, Edward Toroshchyn wrote: > >> Without knowing more about the problem you're solving it's hard to > >> give a more specific advice. > > > > Good point! I guess dependencies such as bash or systemd might be a > > concern. > > > >> If you're want a minimalistic OS and/or package manager, have you > >> looked at Alpine? > > > > Or if the OP wants makepkg, but the OP's Linux is based on e.g. busybox, > > it might be worth to accept a dependency against bash. > > > > Even for my Alpine I installed bash, quasi as my file manager ;). > > > > • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ > > $ /bin/ls -lh /mnt/m1.alpine/bin/bash > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 743K May 25 2023 /mnt/m1.alpine/bin/bash > > > > 743 KiB > > None of that is true in my case, from the pacman PKGBUILD > > depends=( > bash > coreutils > curl > gawk > gettext > glibc > gnupg <-- drop this > gpgme <-- drop this > grep > libarchive > pacman-mirrorlist <-- drop this > systemd > ) > > makedepends=( > asciidoc <-- drop this > doxygen <-- drop this > git > meson > ) > > optdepends=( > 'base-devel: required to use makepkg' <-- may be an issue > 'perl-locale-gettext: translation support in makepkg-template' > ) > All the other dependencies are OK but they will be built with less > dependencies if that make sense. They have a bit less capabilities as > they will not be built from there respective PKGBUILDs. > > > -- > Hindi madali ang maging ako >
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/blob/master/meson_options.txt?ref_type=heads
