The multiple AUR packages building is not optimal if the dependencies are being changed on the go about pikaur HOT 6 CLOSED

The AUR package maintainers may omit some of the build-time dependencies needed to build theirs packages.

in that case please report them on AUR. pikaur didn't meant to work with broken packages

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more on this topic - i'd rather consider checking base-devel and printing a warning if it's not installed (if that's not yet implemented in makepkg itself?) - if not feel free to file a PR to add that

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It seems like you didn't read the issue description completely... :(

It was not about fixing all the "broken" packages (just in case, nor about saving the World too), but about the strange (in my opinion) behaviour of the pikaur utility. It tries to rebuild all packages instead of the current package rebuilding after that its PKGBUILD was edited. Furthermore, the reason of this editing is the secondary here. So, the checking on the base-devel presence doesn't matter here.

But, of course, if you don't want to make your software better, I can't enforce you...

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that is needed to re-compute the dependencies, because pkgbuild changed - that's also expected behavior, not a bug

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I see. But, how these new dependencies can influence on the packages that already built?

Let's imagine, we are trying to install 20 packages and the described case is "fired" on the 20th one. We has edited the PKGBUILD and are going to see the movie... Probably, not the last episode.

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and during this process it installs the corresponding dependencies, performs checks, tries to build a current package, sees that it has already been built and does another mainly unneeded actions

and this is also by design - because some AUR packages require dependencies installed for executing pkgver

so only one potential improvement i see is to do smth like this, (75a3380) to mark already built packages, thus avoid need to call pkgver() of pkgbuild of verifying if that version is already installed

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