BuildRequires - flex and bison

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:01:10 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:13:18PM +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > Hiyas,
> > 
> > do I need to add flex and bison as BuildRequires in a spec-file?
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#BuildRequires does not 
> > mention both as exceptions but the suggested configuration on 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/MockTricks includes both.
> 
> Both flex and bison are in the standard buildgroups, so they should
> not be listed as explicit BuildRequires in your spec file.

To be precise, they _need not_ be listed explicitly (see
PackageReviewGuidelines). But it makes sense to list them.