[Fedora-packaging] Perl Question

[Paul Howarth]

Conner Finlay wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Wouldn't BuildRequires: be pretty much the same thing as doing a manual 
> yum install of the package, then building the spec file?

Yes; that's the way dependencies are done. The spec file contains the 
dependency information and it's up to the user how to satisfy that 
dependency.

Given that packages should be built as non-root users for security 
reasons, nothing in the spec file that attempted to download and install 
dependencies on to the system (and in particular, into the rpm database) 
would work anyway due to permissions.

Paul.