Inflation of explicit build requirements

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Michael,

> The appearance of explicit build requirements like 'gcc-c++', 'cpp' (!),
> 'perl' or even 'sed' in a couple of src.rpms indicates that there are
> different opinions on what packages are considered as belonging into a
> fundamental build environment.

>     /bin/bash, /bin/sh, bzip2, cpio, diffutils, gcc, gcc-c++, gzip, make,
>     patch, perl, python, redhat-rpm-config, rpm-build, rpm-python, sed,
>     tar, unzip

Easiest solution IMO is to put all these dependencies on rpm-build. On
an rpm based system you will most likely install rpm-build if you want
to do any development.

Leonard.

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