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

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Jan 14 00:45:39 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:26:00PM -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> (Incidentally, this would be much less of a problem if we had a way
> to add all the needed BuildRequires: automatically, and actually did
> that.  But the mere presence of these BuildRequires: in spec files
> would still be accidental complexity we are introducing into
> packaging—or alternatively, if we had a tool to detect this
> dependency then we wouldn’t need to explicitly list the dependency
> in the spec file.)

auto-buildrequires ...

BTW BR's are necessarily just needless complexity, since for
autoconf-using packages they control whether optional features of the
package are built.  Although arguably this is a problem in autoconf.

Rich.

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