Till Maas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:09:26AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>
>> This is not an arm specific issue. in the past systemd was pulled into
>> the minimal buildroot via deps. That has changed and its no longer
>> pulled in. on x86 as well as arm.
>
> Several of my packages now fail to build, because more docs are build,
> e.g. PDF versions appeared. Did someone compile a list of packages that
> were added/removed to the buildroot?
>
>> The packages that are explicitly pulled in are:
>> bash bzip2 coreutils cpio diffutils fedora-release findutils
>> gawk gcc gcc-c++ grep gzip info make patch redhat-rpm-config
>> rpm-build sed shadow-utils tar unzip util-linux which xz
>>
>> There is no need to BuildRequire any of them, what they pull in is
>> subject to change and should be added as a BuildRequires
>
> Actually the guidelines say otherwise:
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions_2
> | There is no need to include the following packages or their
> ^^^^^^^^
> | dependencies as BuildRequires because they would occur too often.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Turns out the "or their dependencies" part changed in this case, nothing
particularly wrong about that.
The idea is to avoid silly stuff like:
BuildRequires: glibc
BuildRequires: filesystem