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Currently in all the packages we've defined build_requires for the build requirements, however in most scenarios this isn't actually correct as only the building of that package X itself requires those and not necessarily any packages that depend on X requires those too for building, as such those would be private_build_requires for X.

See: https://github.com/nerdvegas/rez/wiki/Building-Packages#build-time-dependencies

As example:

• If package X requires cmake to run the build script then any dependent package does not need cmake, e.g. package Y might just build using make or sconstruct
• If package X requires visualstudio to build but another does not then this could be private_build_requires.
• Only whenever the dependent packages is required to build against it, e.g. when project Y headers link to project X headers then to build project Z that links Y it requires the headers of X too.

Z <---- Y <---- X
   links   links