On 2016-06-08, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On 08/06/16 15:21 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>I think -devel packages should not "Require: gcc" at all. Not with
>%_isa and not without it.
>
>To actually compile something using those headers you need the C (or
>C++) build environment installed anyway, i.e. you need 'gcc' (or
>'gcc-c++') installed so there's no benefit to the package giving it as
>a requirement.
I forgot to add: if you don't want to actually compile using those
headers, e.g. you just want to look at them for some reason, then you
don't need the whole build env that 'gcc' installs.
This is a false argument. Applying this argument to any package we could
remove all dependencies because you can always only look at the files.
-- Petr