Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

[Jérémy Lal <kapouer@melix.org>]

Le lundi 07 juillet 2014 à 15:32 +0200, Johannes Schauer a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-07-07 14:12:19)
> > Consider also the case when arch:all package require a build dependency on a
> > package that only builds on some archs, to prevent the arch:all package being
> > available on archs where its dependencies are not.  nodejs and node-*
> > packages are such an example.
> 
> could you clarify this case? An arch:all package cannot require a build
> dependency because an arch:all package is a binary package. I can also not find
> any nodejs packages in the lists I posted. In fact, nodejs package have not yet
> been a problem with respect to bootstrapping - probably because they are mostly
> arch:all?

Yep, sorry for the confusion.

Jérémy.