On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:26:00PM -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
(Incidentally, this would be much less of a problem if we had a way
to add all the needed BuildRequires: automatically, and actually did
that. But the mere presence of these BuildRequires: in spec files
would still be accidental complexity we are introducing into
packaging—or alternatively, if we had a tool to detect this
dependency then we wouldn’t need to explicitly list the dependency
in the spec file.)
auto-buildrequires ...
BTW BR's are necessarily just needless complexity, since for
autoconf-using packages they control whether optional features of the
package are built. Although arguably this is a problem in autoconf.
Rich.
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