Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 15:17 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I don't like Proposal #2 a bit. The particular case that is going to >> bite me is that this policy requires me to rebuild documentation files >> (.pdfs, etc) from source. Which is possible, but it vastly expands the >> BuildRequires footprint of the package, to say nothing of the build >> time. > Seconded. This will cause multilib conflicts in many packages, due to > randomness introduced in doc builds, such as generated ids, etc. Hadn't thought of that, but it's a good point. Another issue is that expanding BuildRequires to cover doc toolchains is likely to create cases of circular build dependencies that don't exist today. Those situations are a *serious* PITA for the maintainers involved :-( ... so we should avoid mandating that for marginal reasons. regards, tom lane -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
