Automatic calculation of package dependencies from CMake

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Sun Aug 25 20:53:57 BST 2024


Hello distro folks!

I've heard some mention of folks maintaining tools for determining 
package dependencies for KDE software by scanning our CMakeLists.txt 
files. This a common challenge, and one we encounter in our 
kdesrc-build/kde-builder built tools too, where currently we rely on 
hand-curated lists of packages per distro.

It occurred to me that it might make sense for everyone to collaborate 
on a shared version of this kind of CMake dependency scanner tool, to 
make something more useful for everyone and with a lower maintenance 
burden for each of us.

Thoughts?

Nate


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