Remove gcc, gcc-c++ and make from minimal build root

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> I'd like to collect some feedback about the $SUBJECT, i.e. making
>> minimal build root really minimal, explicitly specifying build
>> dependencies, etc.
>
> -1, all the serious software requires gcc, gcc-c++ and make to build.
>
> I actually think that cmake should be added to the minimal build root,
> instead of removing stuff. Almost all the packages I work on BuildRequire
> cmake (which also implies that they need make to build, and gcc-c++ is the
> typical implementation language).

Of the 18K or so source packages a fairly low amount, I would doubt
it's in the double percentage figures, require cmake, so I don't see
why it's useful, just because it's what your subset of packages mostly
require it doesn't mean it's a generally wide requirement in the
distro itself!

Peter