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Re: [attention p7zip maintainer] p7zip 15.14 is out
- From: cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 10:13:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: [attention p7zip maintainer] p7zip 15.14 is out
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On 4/1/2016 2:49 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Gerrit Haase writes:
>> is is common sense nowadays, to add packages required to build from
>> source to the executable runtime dependencies?
>
> It is quite helpful when some build dependencies aren't quite obvious
> from the readme and/or would be optional if not specifically requested
> (say, via configure options) in the cygport file. And since the missing
> nasm package gets detected quite late into the package build, I think
> it'd make sense to add here.
Yes but only for development installs. Strictly as a user of the binary
install I wouldn't want the dependency here.
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