Re: [Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:20:50 +0100,
  Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

* It might be interesting to have some script, which tries to audit BR, e.g. it removes all BR first and then adds them back as they are required. This could reveal some BR which are actually not needed anymore, but are listed among BR from historic reasons.

The check for this needs to be careful. When some requirements are missing a build can still succeed, but be missing intended features. So you can't just test whether a build succeeds or fails to determine if a build requirement is really needed.
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