On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > So, why not remove all scripted languages from buildroots > and require them to be explicitly BR:'d and R:'ed? explicit 'R's seem to always end up with needless E:VR or a subset of the same; having a detection script is less likely to pollute the runtime with false or falesly versioned R's than manual mungeing BR's are harder, but I always cast a suspicious eye on versioned BR;s in scripting languages, as they seem to pull in 'later' and unrelated modules far beyond reason The trend is for 'thinner' requirements with the emergence of docker, and other cloud'y images; I'd move that way rather than adding yet more cruft inside a spec file. Minimal BR's usually yield smaller R's and smaller packages -- Russ herrold -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
