pam src rpm replaced?

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hi Mike,

> It's also possible that a given maintainer might be on vacation.

 Yup. Something Jef already suggested.

> Also, adding new dependancies often takes more time than just
> adding a line to a spec file.

> It might seem a bit tedious to investigate these things to that 
> level, but unneeded dependancies only complicate packaging and 
> make the minimal distro install size increase.

 I fully agree with this. I can see this might be the case with the flex 
requirement.

> Perhaps we should have a "development-base" package, that 
> Requires all of these things, just to ensure all truly required 
> packages are installed in development installs?  That might be a 
> good suggestion.

 Indeed probably a good idea. I usually start out with a rather minimal 
installation and add packages as needed. This is how I come across these 
missing requirements in the first place. Even after using Linux for many 
years some things that might be obvious to some/many aren't obvious to me. 
Probably because I haven't been doing a lot of c development until lately.

Bye,
Leonard.

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