[Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

[Ben Boeckel]

On Fri, 13 Dec, 2013 at 13:41:55 GMT, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Yea, I suspect both could be combined though in a script that gradually 
> adds new BRs to a package and then iterates over adding and removing BRs 
> until it produces equivalent output (not identical as thats kinda hard 
> to verify and achieve, but same provides/requires of resulting packages 
> and same filelist at least).

What about BRs which are needed, but the script removes because of
transitive dependencies? IMO, BuildRequires: foo-devel getting you
bar-devel, which is also needed, without listing bar-devel means you now
depend on foo-devel not losing that dependency.

--Ben