Detecting unnecessary build requirements

[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.05.2014 18:23, schrieb Ville Skyttä:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> BR's don't always map/result into any dependencies in binary packages

that was not said - but they bloating the build-env

good example is or was the src.rpm for VLC at rpmfusion with
BuildRequires: prelink - funny because the existence of
prelink has other implications and i used to rebuild it
for some time because the ffmpeg in the repos was too old



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