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#1 2011-09-07 06:11:33
- cleem
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[Solved] Optdepends in build()
How must package be created, if it's building depends of the presence of the another packages? For example, for enabling MPI support in some package, I must it declare on building step. But this version of package will have "openmpi" (for example) package as dependency, and it will not work without "openmpi". So, how can I write PKGBUILD correctly? "openmpi" package is not strong dependency, but it is not optional dependency too. I can prepare two packages with and whithout MPI support, but I'm not sure that it is good way.
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#2 2011-09-07 07:28:39
- yngwin
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Re: [Solved] Optdepends in build()
This is the downside of not having useflags in Arch. As pkgbuild writer you will need to make that choice, whether or not to include it.
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#3 2011-09-07 08:38:21
- tomk
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Re: [Solved] Optdepends in build()
Arch is a binary distro, so anyone building packages for it decides at build-time what functionalty will be included, and therefore what dependencies are required. Users always have the option to rebuild if they disagree with the packager's decisions.
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#4 2011-09-07 11:44:40
- cleem
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Re: [Solved] Optdepends in build()
Thank you for replies.
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