Re: RFC: packages that can be installed by the user but not used as build dependencies
Hello,
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer, le lun. 19 août 2024 20:17:08 -0300, a ecrit:
> But users would love to have something like 'qt6-full-dev'. And the
> reason we never provided them with this meta-package is that package
> maintainers would use it almost everywhere, dragging the whole Qt
> installation on each package depending on it... This is a _huge_ waste
> of resources and buildd time (or is it not??)
It is, but also on maintainer systems when testing in bare chroots etc.
So I don't think maintainers would use it that much in practice.
(similarly to no package currently build-depending on texlive-full)
Samuel
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