Re: py-setuptools as a DEPENDS?

[Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-pkg%mumble.net@localhost>]

> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:02:37 +0200
> From: Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> 
> According to devel/py-setuptools/DESCR, this tool aims at building and 
> distributing python package.
> 
> [...]
> 
> -DEPENDS+=      ${PYPKGPREFIX}-setuptools>=0.8:../../devel/py-setuptools
> +BUILD_DEPENDS+=        
> ${PYPKGPREFIX}-setuptools>=0.8:../../devel/py-setuptools

I don't have an opinion on whether it is needed at run-time, but this
is almost certainly a case where you want TOOL_DEPENDS rather than
BUILD_DEPENDS: you need to _execute_ py-setuptools on the host, not
merely passively have it around as an input (e.g.) to a linker.