bug#31719: Chains of dependencies getting longer

[Carlo Zancanaro]

On 20 April 2021 4:18:03 am AEST, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote:
>I just looked over the patch, and while I’m not sure it’s the best way to do 
>things (matching “openjdk” or “icedtea” in the package name seems a little 
>error prone in the presence of packages whose names might include these 
>strings), but I think it’s a definite improvement.

Yeah, I'm agreed on that. I tried for a while to find a way to exclude native 
inputs, but as far as I could tell they all ended up as inputs within the build 
phases. I'd be happy to change it if somebody can give me a hint about how to 
pick out the native inputs.

Carlo