[Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:09:34PM +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> On 12/15/2013 11:54 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >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.
> >
> 
> Ah, i remember you talked about that before Richard. Thanks for the
> link, i'll definitely be looking into that. If i have any patches
> that i'd like to get reviewed shall i send them to you directly or
> is there a ML somewhere where to send them?

I think I only ever got one patch for this project.  In any case,
you can send any patches to me.

Rich.

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