[Fedora-packaging] Scripting language dependencies

[Bill Nottingham]

Jon Masters (jonathan at jonmasters.org) said: 
> On 02/17/2012 09:16 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jon Masters (jcm at redhat.com) said: 
> >> I hope everyone is having a good day. Here in the Fedora ARM project,
> >> we're having a great time overall, but we've run up against a familiar
> >> foe in our preparation for Fedora 17 and rawhide: superfluous deps in
> >> SPEC files. Today's example is a shell-escaped call to Ruby just to
> >> determine some gcc flags for an unrelated package build, but that's just
> >> today's example. There are many others, so some standard would help.
> > 
> > OK, so how about:
> > 
> > ...
> > Scripting inside of spec files
> > 
> > Inside of a spec file, sometimes it is necessary to call a programming or
> > scripting language during %setup, %build, or %install. In Fedora, spec
> > files may in general only use the following languages for this purpose:
> > 
> > 1. Python
> > 2. Perl
> > 3. awk/sed
> > 
> > Also, if your package already BuildRequires a specific scripting language
> > (such as Ruby, or Tcl) as part of its normal compile process, it may also be
> > called from the spec file.
> 
> Following up, I like the suggestion you made and I wonder what the next
> step would be?

Probably needs further polishing with Toshio's comments and pushed into an
actual FPC ticket. Hopefully will get to that this week.

Bill