Parag N(पराग़) wrote, at 06/23/2010 12:55 AM +9:00:
Hi, I see minimal build environment always pulling pkgconfig and also we have " There is no need to include the following packages or their dependencies as BuildRequires because they would occur too often." written in packaging guidelines[1]. Does this mean I can recommend in new package reviews or existing package owners to drop BuildRequires: pkgconfig in spec files?
Parag.
[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Exceptions_2
While currently I have no strong positive or negative opinion for this, I just note that the reason that currently even minimal buildroot always pulls pkgconfig in is because rpm-build package has explicit "Requires: pkgconfig" . See:
* Wed Dec 03 2008 Panu Matilainen pmatilai@redhat.com - make rpm-build require pkgconfig (#473978)
Regards, Mamoru