[Slackbuilds-users] OPTIONAL field [was: qemu/spice-gtk and usbredir]

[Franzen]

On 2016-11-07 09:59, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 11/05/2016 01:20 PM, Andrzej Telszewski wrote:
>> On 05/11/16 20:59, King Beowulf wrote:
>>> to sift and test all OPTIONAL
>>> deps.
>> 
>> No, no, no.
>> 
>> You're confusing what OPTIONAL is about.
>> It's about replicating *THE SAME INFORMATION THAT YOU PUT IN THE 
>> README*
>> into the .info file, so *MACHINES* can understand it.
>> 
>> You are not going to test it more than you do already.
>> Let's finally understand that.
>> 
> 
> I disagree.  Most packages have too many potential compile options.

You are still getting it wrong.
Nobody proposed to put any available compile option in an option-field.
This would most likely be complete insane.

Johannes