On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:52 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:

Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> As per Changes/Remove GCC from BuildRoot
> <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot>, I'm
> going to automatically add BuildRequires: gcc and/or BuildRequires:
> gcc-c++ to packages which fail to build with common messages (like gcc:
> command not found, also autotools/cmake/meson are supported).
>
> I'm going to do this tomorrow.
>
> After which, I'm going to ask rel-eng to finally remove it from buildroot.
> This will happen before mass rebuild. Stay tuned.

I still think that this change is absolutely counterproductive, because it
will actually INCREASE local mock build times for all C/C++ programs for all
packagers, because gcc and gcc-c++ will no longer be included in the root
cache.

However, it will DECREASE local mock build times for all non-C/C++ programs. And now we will know which packages actually need C and/or C++ compiler.

A lot of packages in 2018 are not written in C/C++, welcome to XXI century!

It is also yet another pointless mass change to a huge number of packages,
right after the %defattr one.

It came up multiple times and we are pretty much in agreement that we need such cleanups.