On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:43:51PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 14:27 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Jesse Keating (jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > I think all the current python module packages don't BuildRequire python. Nor > > > requires either, since that's automatically done by rpm now (provided python > > > is in the buildroot) > > > > Not all of them, and I think it's wrong to think they shouldn't. At > > least the ones I've packaged BR python & python-devel. > > There are definitely some. I got bitten by that a while ago when trying > to rebuild an FE package in a RHEL mock root. And I don't see any danger > in formalizing that python is an exception; it's been treated that way > for a long time. Exactly why it belongs as a per-package BR, so we don't have to keep track of it in every distro-version's exception list. Everyone loves python, but how often is it necessary for the packages of Fedora Universe? Here's my count of packages that require python after the fact: $ (for f in $(find . -name \*.rpm); do if rpm -qp --requires $f | \ grep "^(python =|/usr/bin/python)" > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo $f; fi; done) | wc -l Core-6-x86_64: 74 / 2931 = 2.5% Extras-6-x86_64: 135 / 4949 = 3.25% Given that there are more .$arch.rpm packages than .src.rpm packages, this means there are fewer than 2.65% of Universe that requires python at runtime, so presumably about that many also *should* require it at build time. Not enough to require it in every buildroot. My $0.02. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
