util-linux missing from build root

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Aug 30 19:08:07 UTC 2007


On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:19:06PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> Ok, how is it different from something else that is optional per upstream 
> build setup, but considered always welcome in Fedora and widespread?  X and 
> GNOME and Qt and KDE etc support is practically always welcome, so would you 
> like all libX*-devel, *gnome*-devel, qt*-devel and kde*-devel added to 
> the "minimal" build roots because some packages might not get those features 
> built in if the packager doesn't add the BR's?

It is not the same, more like, for example, an optionnal build of a
fortran interface if the compiler is detected. Having gfortran in the
build root could have make sense if there were a lot of fortran
packages. For info it may be worth it.

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Pat 




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