Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
Parag N(पराग़) wrote, at 06/23/2010 12:55 AM +9:00:
> Hi,
> I see minimal build environment always pulling pkgconfig and also
> we have " There is no need to include the following packages or their
> dependencies as BuildRequires because they would occur too often."
> written in packaging guidelines[1]. Does this mean I can recommend in
> new package reviews or existing package owners to drop BuildRequires:
> pkgconfig in spec files?
>
> Parag.
>
> [
1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions_2
While currently I have no strong positive or negative opinion for
this, I just note that the reason that currently even minimal buildroot
always pulls pkgconfig in is because rpm-build package has explicit
"Requires: pkgconfig" . See:
* Wed Dec 03 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)redhat.com>
- make rpm-build require pkgconfig (#473978)
Ok, for posterity I personally would've prefered the second option:
- All packages creating .pc file should have "_Build_Requires pkgconfig"
But what is done is done. If rpm-build is going to Requires: pkgconfig
going forward, then we may as well add this one to the exceptions list.
-- Rex