On Sat, 2020-01-04 at 13:08 +1000, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 4/1/20 12:47 pm, Sébastien Luttringer via arch-dev-public wrote: > > One unfortunate consequence could be to have packages rely on it to make > > dependencies shorter, and make us pull cups or cronie. > > What?! That is like saying one unfortunate consequence of pamcan hooks > is that packages can have no files and just download and compile the > source in a hook. It is a ridiculous consideration. >
Your extreme example seems, indeed, a ridiculous use of hooks. I hadn't realized that adding posix as a dependency on a package will be as extreme and ridiculous as the example that you have just gave. My mistake. Regards, Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
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