Re: Bags

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Mathieu Lirzin
<mathieu.lirzin@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> The main difference between a bag and a package is that a bag lists all
>> the inputs of the build process, including the “implicit inputs” added
>> by the build system.
>
> Can you explain what you mean by "implicit inputs"?
>

Implicit inputs are dependencies that are not specified in a 'package'
form but are instead automatically added by the build system.  For
example, the GNU build system relies upon the coreutils, bash, etc.
These are implicit inputs, so packages that use the GNU build system
do not need to specify them manually.

Hope this helps.

- Dave