New comment by ericonr on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/33796#issuecomment-954957791

Comment:
> if a package like SDK gets fixed to list correct dependencies in future, this will prolly cause issue for a lot of packages using it in tree, if underspecified. And prolly there are a lot of those.

If someone removes most of the deps, it's expected of them to test dependants and make sure things are still being picked up. The libraries needed for static linking should be in the `-devel` package as well, even if most of our packages don't make that usage.

> I dont know the structure of void builder chroot well yet, but this also may increase build time by a significant factor,

`./xbps-src fetch SDL2_image` took 20s, including fetching the 11MB distfile and repository indexes, actual unpacking took a few seconds.

Unless you're volunteering to do the work of checking that all of packages are indeed necessary for static linking and that other packages aren't specifying fewer dependencies than they need to, I'd like to close this issue.