[Bug 689709] Circular and missing dependecies

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689709

--- Comment #11 from Iain Arnell <iarnell at gmail.com> 2011-03-23 08:52:32 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I am insisting on bcond_without, because
> 
> our interest is Fedora, a distro which is incrementally built and want to test
> our packages "to the max" as part of our regular works whenever we build our
> packages.
> 
> i.e. people who are trying to bootstrap from scratch for whatever reasons, are
> not of any importance and need to be taught that Fedora is incrementally built.
> Apart of perl, they will be facing similar issue all over the place, e.g. when
> building gcc/glibc/kernel (also an incrementally built system).

I agree entirely with the argument. Rebuilders who need this should be forced
to add --with bootstrap. But the bcond magic to do that is bcond_with, not
bcond_without:

# Handle conditional builds. %bcond_with is for case when feature is
# default off and needs to be activated with --with ... command line
# switch. %bcond_without is for the dual case.
#
# %bcond_with foo defines symbol with_foo if --with foo was specified on
# command line.
# %bcond_without foo defines symbol with_foo if --without foo was *not*
# specified on command line.

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