alpine package, make ocaml build dependency

[abate]

the opam package on alpine has a runtime dependency on the ocaml package,
which I believe this should just be a build-dependency instead. Would it possible
to change the dependency type, therefore making the alpine images
using opam much smaller ?

in alpine lingo is a makedepends : https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alpine_package#depends_.26_makedepends

ref: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.12/community/x86_64/opam

[rjbou]

ping @avsm

[abate]

I think the fix is super easy :

< depends="ocaml curl tar unzip rsync patch bubblewrap bash"
< makedepends="ocaml-compiler-libs"
---
> depends="curl tar unzip rsync patch bubblewrap bash"
> makedepends="ocaml-compiler-libs ocaml"

Unless I missed something ...

[dra27]

I expect the intention is that it means that opam init doesn't then have to build a compiler (other distros do this).

@avsm - what do you think?

[kit-ty-kate]

This was fixed in Alpine 3.14 some years ago. In the future, for this kind of issue, please do open a ticket on https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/ instead