Mamoru Tasaka wrote: > 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) Ok, for posterity I personally would've prefered the second option: - All packages creating .pc file should have "_Build_Requires pkgconfig" But what is done is done. If rpm-build is going to Requires: pkgconfig going forward, then we may as well add this one to the exceptions list. -- Rex -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
