Detecting unnecessary build requirements

[Richard Shaw]

As packages age sometimes build requirements chance and may not be caught
by the package maintainer. Is there a known way of determining if there are
unnecessary build requirements in a package?

I would think you would need to step through the BR:'s get the capabilities
of the packages that the -devel package pull in, and then check that
against the requires of the resultant packages.

Thanks,
Richard
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