Removing "minimal buildroot" dependencies from rpmdevtools

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 20 November 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> If the other depsolvers don't handle comps, they're rather useless in
> the Fedora world, 

I don't think support for any kind of special grouping is a prerequisite for a 
depsolver to be useful.  I don't remember ever missing that feature when I 
used apt/smart, and now that I've been using mostly yum for a while, I don't 
remember ever invoking any of its group* commands.  Plain old metapackages 
have worked well for me in the (quite rare) cases where I've needed something 
like that.  comps/yum grouping have their own valid purposes for different 
use cases, but saying a depsolver without support for that is rather useless 
is in my opinion more than a little extreme.

> where are grouping is done exclusively via comps.

Not really - we also have metapackages for grouping and new ones do get 
introduced every now and then.  See for example git-all, perl-core, R.