On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > I think it'd be better to be able to mark a build-dependency as > optional, and then implement a mechanism in dpkg to disable the > undesired build-dependencies.
Someone who was interested could get part way to this by running builds with an empty equivs package which satisfied the build-dependency. That could help give the involved parties (which does not include me) an idea of whether implementing such a feature was a worthwhile expenditure of their energy. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as if he were somehow living a posthumous life. -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_
