[sbopkg-users] Dependencies not installed by sbopkg

[JCA]

Actually, as it so often happens, I found out how to do this five minutes
after sending my query. In case anybody is interested:

sbopkg scans for dependencies based on the contents of the queue file for
the package to be installed. This file will list the dependencies for the
target package. If a listed dependency is preceded by a '-' character then
sbopkg will not attempt to verify whether or not that dependency is already
installed.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 10:00 AM JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the following situation:
>
> I want to install a package with sbopkg. This package has a number of
> dependencies, that sbopkg detects and will attempt to install, if not
> already present in the system. The thing is, one of those dependencies is
> already present in the system, but it was not installed by sbopkg. As a
> result, sbopkg attempts to build and install it anyway.
>
> Is it possible to make sbopkg aware of the fact that the dependency is
> present, even if it wasn't installed with sbopkg? The situation that I want
> to address is one in which the package to be installed with sbopkg is
> dependent on qt5 - as anybody who has tried knows, building qt5 takes a lot
> of resources and a long time, even on beefy systems. Having to build it
> explicitly in every system where one wants to use sbopkg is a bit painful.
>
>
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