On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 11:15 +0200, Cedric Girard via aur-general wrote: > > > Hi, > > I would like to have a confirmation. I encountered a PKGBUILD on AUR > that is not building correctly except when systemd is present when > building. The maintainer considers the makedeps is implicit as systemd > is dragged by base metapackage. > > However devtools only ensures base-devel is present, not base, when > building in a clean chroot. And I could not find a mention in the wiki > of base expected to be present when writing a PKGBUILD. > > Could you confirm to me what are the guidelines? Does systemd > (make)dependency should be explicit or not? > > Regards, >
Hi Cedric, Yes, see [1]. Packages in base can, and should, be omitted from dependencies. Similarly, the base-devel group is assumed to be installed when building packages, see [2]. Its members should be omitted from makedepends and checkdepends. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Meta_package_and_package_group#Meta_packages [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#makedepends Cheers, Filipe Laíns
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