Re: latest kudzu changes

[Stephen J Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 21:27, Steve G wrote:
>
> > I'll wait and see what the new source rpms looks like before I decide what surgey
> > is necessary. Normally, I have to disable doxygen since that swings in all kinds
> > of X windows stuff and then go through the configure.in and delete any test that
> > ends in a compile failure for X or related libs, regenrate a new configure, fix
> > the Make all target not to do anything related to X, and doctor the spec file not
> > to package X related items including desktop-fileutils entries.
>
>
> I don't think ability to build SRPMs without X libs is a requirement for
> Fedora at all. Avoiding needless X dependencies on the binary RPMs,
> sure. But BuildRequires on X I see no reason to worry about.

No but it does make bootstrapping and starting an auditing process 
easier. And while it may be more of a RHEL type item.. there may be a 
need for an 'OpenFedora' style sub-project to help kickstart it for 
organizations that need to have all source code internally verified 
before being put into production. These projects usually have to build 
up to the entire distro, and un-needed buildrequires cause issues with 
that being possible.  [There are likely groups that are only 1/2 of the 
way through RHEL-3 having to do it with every RPM.]

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