[Rock-dev] Handling of "optional" dependencies

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 10/31/2011 11:18 AM, Matthias Goldhoorn wrote:
> Hello,
> i just tryed to make our build faster and not building on the robot the
> whole project stack.
> for this i wrote in the buildconf/manifest only the "last" packages
> (avalonFront&  avalonBack in my case).
>
> Butstill vizkit want's to be build because of the entry in the aggregator:
> <depend package="gui/vizkit" optional="1"/>
>
> I thought optional packages should only be build if they are anywhere
> really requested?.
> (without optional option in any package or in the buildconf/manifest).
>
> Did i missed something, or did i understand the "optional option" wrong?.
Optional dependencies are included by default, but can be excluded.

I.e, vizkit won't be built if you add it to the exclude_packages: section
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