latest kudzu changes

Lennert Buytenhek buytenh at wantstofly.org
Tue Aug 17 11:55:32 UTC 2004


On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:26:57AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

> > I don't think ability to build SRPMs without X libs is a requirement for
> > Fedora at all. Avoiding needless X dependencies on the binary RPMs,
> > sure. But BuildRequires on X I see no reason to worry about.
> 
> Avoiding it is useful because it makes bootstrapping a bit less painful.

Definitely.  Bootstrapping FC2 is somewhat painful if even rpm depends
on python which depends on X.  Even pam depends on X in some twisted
way, IIRC.


cheers,
Lennert





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