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authorJuan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>2014-08-20 09:17:26 +0000
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Manual: explain "virtual?vpkg" runtime deps.
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@@ -588,6 +588,11 @@ Dependencies declared via `${depends}` are not installed to the master directory
only checked if they exist as binary packages, and are built automatically by `xbps-src` if
the specified version is not in the local repository.
+There's a special variant of how `virtual` dependencies can be specified as `runtime dependencies`
+and is by using the `virtual` keyword, i.e `depends="virtual?vpkg-0.1_1"`. This declares
+a `runtime` virtual dependency to `vpkg-0.1_1`; this `virtual` dependency will be simply ignored
+when the package is being built with `xbps-src`.
+
### INSTALL and REMOVE files
The INSTALL and REMOVE shell snippets can be used to execute certain actions at a specified