It's going to be a trivial amount of extra work. Packaging build systems (well, the mainstream ones: Debian, RPMs, ebuilds etc.) have the concept of runtime and

It's going to be a trivial amount of extra work. Packaging build systems (well, the mainstream ones: Debian, RPMs, ebuilds etc.) have the concept of runtime and build-time dependencies, so the maintainers will just need to add a few more packages to the build deps list.