Implicit/minimum buildrequires
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 20:05:25 UTC 2003
On Sep 22, 2003, Elliot Lee <sopwith at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 22 Sep 2003, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> > There is not much point of installing rpm-build if you don't want to build
>> > packages
>>
>> Right. The point is that building packages doesn't necessarily mean
>> compiling.
> Jakub's point may be that there needs to be some way of enforcing the
> dependencies that constitute a 'minimum build environment' that other
> packages can assume to be present when building.
Well... If glibc-devel is to be present, then I guess so should gcc
and binutils. Otherwise I fail to see the point.
Maybe we need a BuildNoPrereq: for the rare exceptions?
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