Dne 12.12.2013 18:50, Phil Knirsch napsal(a):
Initiate build requires cleanup for base related packages in Fedora
working with maintainers and the community. The goal is to reduce the
number of self-hosting packages required for Base from currently over
2000 packages.
Just a few (probably silly ;) ideas which comes to my mind reading about
this initiative:
* It might be interesting to have some script, which tries to audit BR,
e.g. it removes all BR first and then adds them back as they are
required. This could reveal some BR which are actually not needed
anymore, but are listed among BR from historic reasons.
* Second level could be to try to limit the BR, although some extended
functionality or binding might not be supported. This extended
functionality or bindings could be moved out into separate package,
although it would require second build run. Looking into Python BR, I
believe they could be trimmed down using this approach.
Vít