mach needs "redundant" BuildRequires

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:22:36 +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:

> Due to the fact that -devel packages have no *automatic* dependencies 
> added to them, there is no significant dependency structure in them. 
> This makes getting the right BuildRequires for the packages nearly 
> impossible. This issue and the solution Mandrake chose to implement are 
> documented here:
>     http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/RpmDevelDependencies

Fetching dependencies from pkgconfig templates is missing on that
page. Pkgconfig has an own dependency chain. When a -devel package gets
installed and contains support for pkgconfig,

  pkg-config --list-all

should not fail due to a broken chain of dependencies. The package should
require every [-devel] package needed to complete the dependencies listed
in the pkgconfig file.

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