BuildRequires - flex and bison

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at ...> writes:
> > >> Also, I am not sure if the PackageGuideLines allow packages downloading
> > >> documents from external sources. 
> > > 
> > > Of course they do!
> > >>From the "Hey, let's remove Firefox, it 'downloads documents from external 
> > > sources'!" dept.,
> > 
> > Methinks Ralf was referring to build-time downloading, not run-time 
> > downloading.
> Me was referring to unattended background downloads of data files
> (configuration- files, data files, text files).
> 
> Concerns along the lines "What puts mock into a special position" that
> it is allowed to automatically pull *config* files unsupervised from a
> remote location:
> 
> Wrt. this, I don't see how mock is any different from
> * applications contacting a remote counter each time they start up.
> * games loading their game data from a remote file.
> * applications dynamically installing plug ins from remote.
> ...
> 
> Another concern are usability (fedoraproject.org bottlenecking mock),
> and security.

That's like saying that yum should ship with all the metadata it will
ever need b/c it shouldn't be allowed to download files from the
network.

mock isn't downloading anything special, yum, being used by mock, is.

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