The Arch Packaging Standards page is locked too . There is no mention of "base" or "base-devel" at all in it.
Not necessary IMO - that page describes the standards, not the implementation of those standards.
]]>Seems pretty specific to me. (?)
]]>Alright .
I added warnings and information in various wiki pages .the AUR User Guidelines page is locked .
from the page:
"The package group "base-devel" should be sufficient, as it includes makepkg and the tools needed for compiling from source."I suggest this to be changed to:
"The package group "base-devel" is required unless you like chasing makedependencies."
Actually I would use these two sentences (without removing one or the other).
The package group "base-devel" should be sufficient, as it includes makepkg and the tools needed for compiling from source. It is required unless you like chasing makedependencies.
]]>the AUR User Guidelines page is locked .
from the page:
"The package group "base-devel" should be sufficient, as it includes makepkg and the tools needed for compiling from source."
I suggest this to be changed to:
"The package group "base-devel" is required unless you like chasing makedependencies."
The Arch Packaging Standards page is locked too . There is no mention of "base" or "base-devel" at all in it.
]]>I don't maintain a lot of AUR packages but I had users commenting more than once reporting missing makedepends . So , I looked around today and didn't see this requirement obviously stated anywhere relevant . In fact , I wouldn't have known this If I wasn't subscribed to the Arch mailing lists where this requirement was mentioned .
Suggestions :
1) Edit relevant wiki pages to mention this requirement (base-devel is only mentioned as a convenient way to install different building tools) .
2) Add base-devel to abs optdeps .
3) Maybe add this info to the AUR homepage (not going to happen , I know) .
4) More consistency in the official PKGBUILDS (e.g 703 PKGBUILDS in my abs tree include pkgconfig in makedepends) .