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authorAngelos Evripiotis <jevripiotis@bloomberg.net>2019-02-20 10:22:32 +0000
committerAngelos Evripiotis <jevripiotis@bloomberg.net>2019-02-20 14:07:24 +0000
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doc/./arch_cachekeys: note no direct runtime deps
I was mistaken on this point in my first reading. The sentence on strong and weak key equivalency made me check my assumptions. Help others with the same misunderstanding by explicitly calling this out in a new paragraph.
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@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ or the environment changes but it will not change when a dependency is updated.
For elements without build dependencies the ``strong`` cache key is identical
to the ``weak`` cache key.
+Note that dependencies which are not required at build time do not affect
+either kind of key.
+
Strict build plan
-----------------
This is the default build plan that exclusively uses ``strong`` cache keys