Re: regression in meson build, AC_PATH_PROG lost

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 06:49:15PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > In my opinion this move would place a significant burden upon > downstreams and users while taking very little burden away from > upstream developers because, regardless of whether or not build time > checks are performed, the task of maintaining the list of runtime > dependencies in *some* form still falls upon upstream: you would just > have changed it from updating three files to updating two. I would say that nobody is arguing about the responsibility of providing list of runtime dependencies. In fact IMHO the ideal solution would be to have a complete list of all our dependencies with links to the respective upstream projects to make it clear.

For downstream maintainers having a list of dependencies is IMO way better then running the build system several times to figure out what else they need to add to the package dependencies in order to successfully build the package. Obviously this applies to non-RPM based distributions.