On 2003-09-04(Thu) 00:32:50 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Ainsi parlait Michael Scherer :
> > i suggest the last solution, but, maybe someone see a problem ?
> Yes, coherency with other development tools.
> How many packages really requires autoconf/automake ? I guess less than 1%. 
> However, autoconf/automake are rpm-build dependencies. Here we have more 
> packages requiring what appears some new build tool, and we are gonna add it 
> as an explicit require for each of them. This is plainly silly.

You can bump that number to 99% as well by adding patches to packages.
People are talking about how widespread some tools are needed, and
certainly autotools/libtool are the most prominent members, while some
others are not. If missing some tools will make MANY packagers' life
worse, then certainly it's worthy to add that to rpm-build dependency. I
think pkgconfig is almost there, but not yet.

Abel



> 
> BTW, i was checking dependencies, rpm depends on make. Is this normal ?





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