On 2016-06-08, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/06/16 15:21 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>I think -devel packages should not "Require: gcc" at all. Not with >>%_isa and not without it. >> >>To actually compile something using those headers you need the C (or >>C++) build environment installed anyway, i.e. you need 'gcc' (or >>'gcc-c++') installed so there's no benefit to the package giving it as >>a requirement. > > I forgot to add: if you don't want to actually compile using those > headers, e.g. you just want to look at them for some reason, then you > don't need the whole build env that 'gcc' installs. > This is a false argument. Applying this argument to any package we could remove all dependencies because you can always only look at the files. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
