Parag N(पराग़) wrote, at 06/23/2010 12:55 AM +9:00: > Hi, > I see minimal build environment always pulling pkgconfig and also > we have " There is no need to include the following packages or their > dependencies as BuildRequires because they would occur too often." > written in packaging guidelines[1]. Does this mean I can recommend in > new package reviews or existing package owners to drop BuildRequires: > pkgconfig in spec files? > > Parag. > > [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions_2 While currently I have no strong positive or negative opinion for this, I just note that the reason that currently even minimal buildroot always pulls pkgconfig in is because rpm-build package has explicit "Requires: pkgconfig" . See: * Wed Dec 03 2008 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> - make rpm-build require pkgconfig (#473978) Regards, Mamoru -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
