[Bug 220888] Review Request: fakeroot - Gives a fake root environment

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Summary: Review Request: fakeroot - Gives a fake root environment


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220888


peter at thecodergeek.com changed:

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------- Additional Comments From peter at thecodergeek.com  2007-01-04 21:13 EST -------
(In reply to comment #11)
> Thanks for reviewing this! Please note that to build this package you need to
> build three other packages submitted (see the blocking bugs). If you would
> review them as well, that would be great!

I'll take care of those ones as well. :]

> o buildroot: The wording in the guidelines is the `preferred' one, and it has
>   been discussed that we should skip or change that. In any case that should not 
>   be a blocker.
> 
>   http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-July/msg00167.html

It was "discussed"; but no conclusion in that thread (or any similar that I can
find via a brief Google search) has arisen. The consensus (with which I agree)
is that using a terser BuildRoot breaks multi-user build environments and causes
 more trouble than it's worth. Until rpm-build (or whatever ends up carrying it)
defaults to a sane buildroot (at which point we can stop putting them in our
spec files entirely), we should keep what is in the Guidelines; and doing
otherwise is therefore a blocker. Please fix that (in the other ones you're
packaging too). Thank you.
 
> o `redundant' BRs: They do not hurt and are also tagged as `not needed', not
>   `forbidden'. Especially gcc-c++/libstdc++ could be removed from future minimal
>   roots for an easy gain of space. It's already been removed in other 
>   buildsystems.
Understood. Thanks for the explanation.

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