On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:20:54 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Was about to comment on a review that
BuildRequires: glibc-devel
isn't needed and was in the list of exceptions, and was to link the list
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions_2
only to discover it indeed is not there.
Shouldn't it be?
A Similar argument could probably be made for libstdc++-devel
It hasn't come up often enough over the past years. The guidelines say:
| There is no need to include the following packages
| or their dependencies ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(!)
* gcc and gcc-c++ are on the list
* gcc requires glibc-devel
* gcc-c++ requires libstdc++-devel
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