[Slackbuilds-users] Please list all direct dependencies as dependencies

[Tim Dickson]

the submission rules state not to declare deps of deps.

whatever tool you use, way you can't get away from the need to rebuild 
other packages from time to time. Usually if there is a major version 
change so the api/abi may changel and that may require rebuilding some 
trees.

One issue with declaring all sub deps in a package is maintainers having 
to keep track of all the sub deps and potential optional deps. 
increasing the work for the maintainers, and making it very difficult to 
stay up to date, due to daisy chain effects of one lib changing it's 
dep, causing half the repo needing to be updated. That is not a 
sustainable way to operate, as the sbo admins would be flooded with 
updates all the time, and due to the release cycle, changes would 
propagate over weeks. Our current method of only listing direct deps, 
and if something breaks then fix it is more manageable than forcing 
cascading updates if one lib changes it's deps.

on approach is rebuild and see if it works. if not, rebuild tree. you 
can use tools like sqg to generate dep trees, just bare in mind any 
"optional deps".

regards Tim