Fedora Legacy Test Update Notification: XFree86

John Dalbec jpdalbec at ysu.edu
Thu Sep 30 12:24:46 UTC 2004


Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> Changelog:
> 
> * Tue Sep 28 2004 Dominic Hargrewaves <dom at earth.li> 4.2.1-27
> 
> - Fixed permissions of a few source files
> - Added gcc-c++ BuildRequires

The fedora.us Wiki says:
> Exceptions
> 
> There is no need to include the following packages or their dependencies as BuildRequires because they would occur too often. These packages are considered the minimum build environment and are installed as requirements of the rpm-build package or fedora-rpmdevtools package.
> 
> rpm-build
> redhat-rpm-config
> gcc
> gcc-c++
> make
> sed
> tar
> cpio
> patch
> diffutils
> gzip
> bzip2
> unzip
> perl

Are we not following this policy?  If not, a page should be added to our Wiki to 
describe the policy we are following.
John




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