[Slackbuilds-users] pelican depends on Jinja2 >= 2.7

[Matteo Bernardini]

2014/1/25 Kyle Guinn <elyk03 at gmail.com>:
> On 1/25/14, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>>> The way I see it, if package A says it needs B and C, then I put them
>>> both in REQUIRES.  Whether or not B requires C should have no effect
>>> on that.  Maybe some newer version of B won't require C, and then the
>>> dependencies for A would be incomplete.
>>
>> please have a look on the FAQ
>> http://slackbuilds.org/guidelines/
>>
>> REQUIRES contains a space-separated list of all required build-time and
>> run-time dependencies, each named exactly as listed on the
>> SlackBuilds.org site. It should not contain anything that is part of
>> Slackware itself. The content of REQURIES should only be first level
>> dependences (i.e. no deps of deps).
>
> On the other hand, package A says it depends on B and C, but A only
> "needs" C because B needs C.  In this case A is lying and it only
> needs B, and REQUIRES should only contain B.  This is the scenario the
> FAQ describes.  My first scenario is different.  Which case is this?

well, as I have understood it, the answer is the same: in either case
A should have B in REQUIRES and B should have C.
if a newer version of B won't require C but C is still needed for A,
then C should be added to the REQUIRES of A.

Matteo