Inflation of explicit build requirements

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Sat Jun 5 15:46:35 UTC 2004


Hi Michael,

> rpm-build's purpose is not in defining a build environment.

Hm. Why not? Since rpm-build requires these packages to be fully
functional I don't see why one couldn't put the dependencies on that
package. It would obsolete the need for a meta package and get rid of a
couple of explicit requirements in a lot of spec files.

rpm -i --aid rpm-build*rpm would then install a fully functional
development system without the need to install extra requirements by
hand.

Leonard.

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