On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:11 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 17.05.2006, 08:45 +0100 schrieb Paul Howarth: > > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:27 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > +1 > > > > The new buildsys-build package, which replaces the use of comps groups > > in the forthcoming version of mock from cvs, still has dependencies on > > flex and bison and will hence pull them in to the default buildroot. > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-commits/2006-April/msg00850.html > > > > Any other packages in the list that shouldn't be? > > /me looks at > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/mock/buildsys-build.spec?root=fedora&view=markup > -- no changes since the import > > Okay, I'd like to propose that we also remove the following packages > from the list: > > automake15, automake, automake16, automake14, libtool, autoconf > > They shouldn't normally be needed for building and there are even some > people that even say "you shall not use autoconf in spec files -- patch > the sources instead". As I am amongst those, I fully agree with your proprosal above. > In any case, having them in the default buildroot > sounds unnecessary to me. Or are there any good reason I'm not aware of? There are some subtile dependencies between rpm/rpmbuild (read: packaging bugs in rpmbuild) and some other packages. One would have to check if these have still exist. > And I'm wondering why we need those (hints why we might need them > appreciated): > > openssh-server > doxygen > indent > byacc > ctags > gettext > gdb > createrepo > perl-XML-* Without having checked details, they are all superflous, IMO. Also cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183872 the responsible persons have preferred to ignore for many weeks. > And we probably should synchronize it with the list we maintain at > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions > For example: python and intltool (probably others) are in the default > mock install, but not in the list from the wiki. perl on the other hand > is. Is there a good reason for that behavior? None that I am aware about. Neither python, perl nor intltool should be in there, unless they are rpm-required by some other tools. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
