[Bug 689709] Circular and missing dependecies

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

--- Comment #12 from Zenon Panoussis <redhatbugs at provocation.se> 2011-03-23 12:42:32 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)

> 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.

Even so, RHEL depends to a great extent on Fedora for its packages, so it is a
consideration to weigh in. 

> 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.

Leaving the arrogant insolence of that statement aside, your task here is not
to teach people, but to improve Fedora (and indirectly RHEL). Hence, you need
to look at the issue from a technical point of view, not a political one. 

> 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).

Apples and oranges. Obviously you can't build a compiler unless you have a
compiler, but many BuildRequires in this bug are *literally unnecessary*. That
is, when package A builds correctly without package B, there should not be a
'BuildRequires: B' in the specfile of A.

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