On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:45:39AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:26:00PM -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > (Incidentally, this would be much less of a problem if we had a way
> > to add all the needed BuildRequires: automatically, and actually did
> > that. But the mere presence of these BuildRequires: in spec files
> > would still be accidental complexity we are introducing into
> > packaging—or alternatively, if we had a tool to detect this
> > dependency then we wouldn’t need to explicitly list the dependency
> > in the spec file.)
>
> auto-buildrequires ...
>
> BTW BR's are necessarily just needless complexity, since for
^not
> autoconf-using packages they control whether optional features of the
> package are built. Although arguably this is a problem in autoconf.
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