Code Ready Builder

[Paul Howarth]

The EL-8 non-default repo Code Ready Builder is primarily targeted at
developers, but it looks to me like it's going to be a required repo
for a lot of EPEL-8 users, particularly those using interpreted
languages.

As an example, today I built perl-Expect for EPEL-8
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744512). This has a
dependency on perl-IO-Tty, which is in Code Ready Builder. The
dependency isn't just a build-time dependency though, it's a run-time
one too. So it seems to me that the Code Ready Builder repo will be
required for lots of EPEL-8 users, just like the optional repo used to
be for earlier EL versions.

Paul.

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 11:03, Paul Howarth  wrote:
> The EL-8 non-default repo Code Ready Builder is primarily targeted at
> developers, but it looks to me like it's going to be a required repo
> for a lot of EPEL-8 users, particularly those using interpreted
> languages.
>
> As an example, today I built perl-Expect for EPEL-8
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744512). This has a
> dependency on perl-IO-Tty, which is in Code Ready Builder. The
> dependency isn't just a build-time dependency though, it's a run-time
> one too. So it seems to me that the Code Ready Builder repo will be
> required for lots of EPEL-8 users, just like the optional repo used to
> be for earlier EL versions.

Yeah. I think this is going to be one of those hard things we are
going to run into with a lot of Appstream missing packages. Most of
the time it can be done without it and then BOOM nope you need CRB.
> Paul.
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[Troy Dawson]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 8:21 AM Stephen John Smoogen  wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 11:03, Paul Howarth  wrote:
> > The EL-8 non-default repo Code Ready Builder is primarily targeted at
> > developers, but it looks to me like it's going to be a required repo
> > for a lot of EPEL-8 users, particularly those using interpreted
> > languages.
> >
> > As an example, today I built perl-Expect for EPEL-8
> > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744512). This has a
> > dependency on perl-IO-Tty, which is in Code Ready Builder. The
> > dependency isn't just a build-time dependency though, it's a run-time
> > one too. So it seems to me that the Code Ready Builder repo will be
> > required for lots of EPEL-8 users, just like the optional repo used to
> > be for earlier EL versions.
>
> Yeah. I think this is going to be one of those hard things we are
> going to run into with a lot of Appstream missing packages. Most of
> the time it can be done without it and then BOOM nope you need CRB.

Yep.  The KDE desktop cannot be installed without CRB enabled.  There
are a few critical packages that KDE depends on that are in CRB.