Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> I think Suggests would be OK. Even Recommends seems like too much. You may
> be using clang++ to compile the code, or just accessing headers from
> doxygen, or maybe testing an alternate version of g++ from copr, i.e. with
> a different package name…
Suggests is actually pretty useless though, because nothing (on the consumer
side) really uses it in Fedora.
> I also think that it doesn't make sense to pull in the compiler from a
> -devel package because you need so many other things: a linker, make or
> ninja, maybe meson/autotoolz/cmake/ant/whatever, so pulling in cmake+g++
> is not enough in some cases and too much in other.
Well, a lot of this used to be part of the default buildroot once upon a
time, e.g., make was only recently dropped from it. These changes have made
it harder to build software for Fedora.
In fact, even g++ was once part of the default buildroot, and in fact, one
of the motivations for adding those Requires: gcc-c++ to some strategic
-devel packages was to avoid having to add the BuildRequires to hundreds of
packages.
Kevin Kofler
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