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Manual.md: document `checkdepends` on #explain_depends

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@ -597,10 +597,10 @@ i.e `dkms_modules="$pkgname $version zfs 4.14"`
<a id="explain_depends"></a>
#### About the many types of `depends` variable.
So far we have listed three types of `depends`, there are `hostmakedepends`,
`makedepends`, and plain old `depends`. To understand the difference between
them, understand this: Void Linux cross compiles for many arches. Sometimes in
a build process, certain programs must be run, for example `yacc`, or the
So far we have listed four types of `depends`, there are `hostmakedepends`,
`makedepends`, `checkdepends` and plain old `depends`.To understand the difference
between them, understand this: Void Linux cross compiles for many arches.
Sometimes in a build process, certain programs must be run, for example `yacc`, or the
compiler itself for a C program. Those programs get put in `hostmakedepends`.
When the build runs, those will be installed on the host to help the build
complete.
@ -611,6 +611,11 @@ architecture of the build machine, the architecture of the target machine must
be used. Typically the `makedepends` will be the only one of the three types of
`depends` to include `-devel` packages, and typically only `-devel` packages.
Then there are those things that are required for a package to run its testsuite
`dejagnu` or libraries it must link to when building test binaries like `cmocka`.
These are `checkdepends` and they are installed like they are part of `makedepends`.
the difference is that they are only installed when `XBPS_CHECK_PKGS` is defined.
The final variable, `depends`, is for those things the package needs at
runtime and without which is unusable, and that xbps can't auto-detect.
These are not all the packages the package needs at runtime, but only those