On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 8:21 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 11:03, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The EL-8 non-default repo Code Ready Builder is primarily targeted at > > developers, but it looks to me like it's going to be a required repo > > for a lot of EPEL-8 users, particularly those using interpreted > > languages. > > > > As an example, today I built perl-Expect for EPEL-8 > > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744512). This has a > > dependency on perl-IO-Tty, which is in Code Ready Builder. The > > dependency isn't just a build-time dependency though, it's a run-time > > one too. So it seems to me that the Code Ready Builder repo will be > > required for lots of EPEL-8 users, just like the optional repo used to > > be for earlier EL versions. > > > > Yeah. I think this is going to be one of those hard things we are > going to run into with a lot of Appstream missing packages. Most of > the time it can be done without it and then BOOM nope you need CRB. > Yep. The KDE desktop cannot be installed without CRB enabled. There are a few critical packages that KDE depends on that are in CRB. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
