On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 8:21 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 at 11:03, Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org> wrote:
>
> The EL-8 non-default repo Code Ready Builder is primarily targeted at
> developers, but it looks to me like it's going to be a required repo
> for a lot of EPEL-8 users, particularly those using interpreted
> languages.
>
> As an example, today I built perl-Expect for EPEL-8
> (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1744512). This has a
> dependency on perl-IO-Tty, which is in Code Ready Builder. The
> dependency isn't just a build-time dependency though, it's a run-time
> one too. So it seems to me that the Code Ready Builder repo will be
> required for lots of EPEL-8 users, just like the optional repo used to
> be for earlier EL versions.
>
Yeah. I think this is going to be one of those hard things we are
going to run into with a lot of Appstream missing packages. Most of
the time it can be done without it and then BOOM nope you need CRB.
Yep. The KDE desktop cannot be installed without CRB enabled. There
are a few critical packages that KDE depends on that are in CRB.