[Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

[Ben Boeckel]

On Sun, 15 Dec, 2013 at 10:55:41 GMT, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> auto-buildrequires (http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/auto-buildrequires/)
> uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to find out what BuildRequires are packages
> are actually touched during the build.  Therefore it does not suffer
> from this problem.

Given A needing B which uses C's headers (but never included directly),
will C-devel be added as a BR to A? IMO, that would be a mistake (and a
bug in A if it is depending on B to bring in C's headers).

--Ben