2009/12/5 Ionut Biru <[email protected]> > On 12/05/2009 02:35 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: > >> Ionut Biru schrieb: >> >>> On 12/05/2009 01:46 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: >>> >> >> 2) How are cross-repository buildtime and optional dependencies >>>> handled? For >>>> example, can we have a package in [extra] makedepend and/or optdepend on >>>> another in [community]? >>>> >>> >>> no. all packages that depend has the be in the same repo. >>> >>> >> Well, that cannot be true. There are lots of packages in extra that >> (make-)depend on packages in core, and packages in community that >> (make-)depend on packages in core or extra. Only the other way around is >> forbidden. Read the "->" as "may deliver (make-)dependencies for" >> core -> extra -> community >> >> Regards Stefan >> > > thanks for explaining better. what i wanted to say is that a package from > core can't depend on o package from extra or community. or a package from > extra cannont dependend on one from community. > > he asked that exact type of dependency and that's why i said is not > allowed. >
Yes, correct, that's exactly what I wanted to know. In terms of dependencies, it's obvious they have to be in the same repo since a user may want to just use one. But what I was concerned about was makedepends and optdepends, since they don't affect the user when he downloads the binary. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
