Detecting unnecessary build requirements

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Of course, I'm not talking about anything fully automated. The package
maintainer would need to review the result of the findings to determine if
the BR's were actually superfluous.

Thanks,
Richard
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