Re: Detecting unnecessary build requirements

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On Ter, 2014-05-13 at 15:03 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: 
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Richard Shaw
>         <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         > I would think you would need to step through the BR:'s get
>         the capabilities
>         > of the packages that the -devel package pull in, and then
>         check that against
>         > the requires of the resultant packages.
>         
>         
>         BR's don't always map/result into any dependencies in binary
>         packages.
>         
> Of course, I'm not talking about anything fully automated. The package
> maintainer would need to review the result of the findings to
> determine if the BR's were actually superfluous.

I agree that could be a great tool to include in fedora-review pkg 

Hope not repeating someone else in this thread . 
Best regards,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.

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