Re: mach needs "redundant" BuildRequires

[Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 arcor de>]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:30:02 +0100, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 20:58, John Dalbec wrote:
> > According to http://www.fedora.us/wiki/HOWTOFindMissingBuildRequires, neither 
> > gcc-c++ nor python should be listed as a BuildRequires:.
> 
> I know about gcc-c++ being on that page (and I still disagree, but
> that's personal opinion).  I just now noticed that python got added, and
> don't understand why.  I'll ask.

Cut'n'paste error. Doesn't really matter.

The fedora-rpmdevtools package pulls in python as an essential component
for a build environment. And hence you need not list python as
BuildRequires when building for fedora.us. When building such a package
for Fedora Core, though, listing python as a buildreq can be useful,
because the minimal build environment for Fedora Core is not defined
anywhere beyond the "Development" components group, which is different
from mach's definition.

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