New comment by st3r4g on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/18712#issuecomment-753988157 Comment: > I think either of those would still make bootstrapping pretty complicated. Can you explain why the _build-rundep-after-dependant_ would make bootstrap complicated? I'll link again my proposal https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20438#issuecomment-605719104 and following comments. > What we'd need is some way of saying that a certain dependency isn't necessary when the package is a makedeps, but when it's installed normally it should be there. This gets hairy pretty quick, unfortunately. Isn't that what `depends=` already is supposed to describe?