[Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:20:50PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 12.12.2013 18:50, Phil Knirsch napsal(a):
> >
> >Initiate build requires cleanup for base related packages in
> >Fedora working with maintainers and the community. The goal is to
> >reduce the number of self-hosting packages required for Base from
> >currently over 2000 packages.
> 
> Just a few (probably silly ;) ideas which comes to my mind reading
> about this initiative:
> 
> * It might be interesting to have some script, which tries to audit
> BR, e.g. it removes all BR first and then adds them back as they are
> required. This could reveal some BR which are actually not needed
> anymore, but are listed among BR from historic reasons.

auto-buildrequires:

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/

Rich.

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