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README: Also install git #1226

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@tyilo tyilo commented Aug 1, 2024

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This has already been suggested at least three times before: #145, #1024, #1043, so maybe it's worth to add at least git to prevent similar reports in future?

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tyilo commented Sep 7, 2024

If this is not added I think the whole sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel line should be removed.

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rien333 commented Sep 21, 2024

I guess the reasoning behind installing base-devel is that its packages are basically implicitly assumed to be installed in any PKGBUILD on the aur. After all, if you are going to use the aur, you need to be able to build software, and this is precisely what base-devel aims to provide (i've seen "bug" reports on the aur that were totally fixeable if the user just had base-devel).

The same cannot be said about git. In fact, git it often of an explicit makedep of packages that need it.

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tyilo commented Sep 23, 2024

I guess the reasoning behind installing base-devel is that its packages are basically implicitly assumed to be installed in any PKGBUILD on the aur. After all, if you are going to use the aur, you need to be able to build software, and this is precisely what base-devel aims to provide (i've seen "bug" reports on the aur that were totally fixeable if the user just had base-devel).

The same cannot be said about git. In fact, git it often of an explicit makedep of packages that need it.

Sure. However the next line is literally git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru.git, which can't be done without having git installed.

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