From 35d21a36af9a4dd9b0f73025ce81ab63ac8532f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl George <carl@george.computer>
Date: Apr 02 2022 06:54:41 +0000
Subject: Change guidance on explicit build deps to account for generators


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diff --git a/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc b/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
index 8dda206..6faf292 100644
--- a/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
+++ b/guidelines/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc
@@ -752,8 +752,10 @@ and for some scripting languages such as Perl.
 Automatically determined dependencies MUST NOT be duplicated
 by manual dependencies.
 
-Build dependencies, however,
-cannot be automatically determined and MUST be explicitly listed.
+Build dependencies, however, MUST be explicitly listed,
+unless you are using an automatic build dependency generator
+(e.g. xref:Rust.adoc#_buildrequires[Rust] or
+xref:Python.adoc#_build_time_dependency_generator[Python]).
 Refer to the <<buildrequires>>.
 
 Versioned dependencies (build-time or runtime) SHOULD ONLY be used