Question about bootstrapping MinGW

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 8 December 2016 at 17:16, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> Also, in an ideal world the package manager would check whether
>> "*-all" is already installed or available in a binary form and only if
>> it is not, it would start building the "*-gcc" port.
>
> Specify it as a build dependency?

You mean not adding it as a runtime dependency (even if having also a
runtime dependency on gcc would be technically correct)?

That sounds like a neat trick/workaround.

Thank you.

Mojca