On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:07:56 +0100, Dries Verachtert wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 23:52, Cristian Gafton wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Dries Verachtert wrote: > > > > An example: is gcc-c++ installed by default or should it be included in > > > the BuildRequires of each c++ program? > > > > No, the development tools like compilers, make, autconf are assumed to be > > available. I realize that the @development-tools group might be broad for > > some tastes; later on we'll look at eventually reducing the scope further > > of what is assumed to be in the buildroot; for now that is a relativey > > sane and safe compromise, I think. > > Thank you very much for the information! Although i must confess i'm used to > mach which doesn't install that much packages automatically within a > buildroot, i think it's great there is (or will be) some standard endorsed by > Red Hat which will be used by Fedora Core and Fedora Extras and maybe also by > others like maybe Fedora Legacy.. this will make it easier to transfer a spec > file from Fedora Core to Fedora Extras i guess. In the meantime, give the fedora-rmdevelrpms tool a try: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HOWTOFindMissingBuildRequires It's included in the fedora-develrpms package. It finds and uninstalls a lot of development packages automatically, but at the same depends on a minimal set of other development packages which stay installed. It's a good start, although depending on what you have installed, you may see that it fails to uninstall gettext and m4 and any of their dependencies.
