BuildRequires - flex and bison

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at ...> writes:
> > > >> Also, I am not sure if the PackageGuideLines allow packages downloading
> > > >> documents from external sources. 
> > > > 
> > > > Of course they do!
> > > >>From the "Hey, let's remove Firefox, it 'downloads documents from external 
> > > > sources'!" dept.,
> > > 
> > > Methinks Ralf was referring to build-time downloading, not run-time 
> > > downloading.
> > Me was referring to unattended background downloads of data files
> > (configuration- files, data files, text files).
> > 
> > Concerns along the lines "What puts mock into a special position" that
> > it is allowed to automatically pull *config* files unsupervised from a
> > remote location:
> > 
> > Wrt. this, I don't see how mock is any different from
> > * applications contacting a remote counter each time they start up.
> > * games loading their game data from a remote file.
> > * applications dynamically installing plug ins from remote.
> > ...
> > 
> > Another concern are usability (fedoraproject.org bottlenecking mock),
> > and security.
> 
> That's like saying that yum should ship with all the metadata it will
> ever need b/c it shouldn't be allowed to download files from the
> network.
Yum is *SPECIAL*

> mock isn't downloading anything special, yum, being used by mock, is.
mock is an arbitrary application.

Ralf