Ainsi parlait Ben Reser :
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:11:36AM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > It is still not a good idea to add as buildrequires it to a gazillion
> > spec, either manually or automatically. Just adding rpm-build requires
> > would be more consistent with current solution used with other build
> > tools. AFAIK, nothing buildrequires autoconf, automake, gcc, they are
> > considered as implicit build dependencies.
>
> All kinds of packages have buildrequires on autoconf, automake, or gcc.
> Though they all need specific versions. Given the recent version issues
> with autoconf and automake this is pretty common now for packages to
> need to specify that they need a particular version.
Only when this is not the default version. When old autoconf/automake will get
deprecated, i guess new versions will replace them in rpm-build dependencies,
and current behaviour will get reversed.
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