�Stefan van der Eijk� sagte am 2002-02-14 um 23:20:40 +0800 :
> Is that based on any technical fact, or is it just "convenience" "lazyness"?

Depends, both is true I'd say.  For one, it's lazyness.  But on the
other hand I don't think it's right that every gettext'able program
(~70%?) should explicitly require such a base package.  You may very
well disagree with me on this one, but then I wonder why it would be
wrong to also BuildRequires: gcc, bash, filesystem, rpm, rpm-build,
perl....  IMO gettext is so basic, that it really fits in the above
list, no?

The same also applies to Requires:.  Let's take the
multi-gnome-terminal.  Should I really add all these packages to the
Requires?

> for r in $(rpm -qR multi-gnome-terminal|grep -v =) ; do rpm -q --whatprovides $r ; 
>done | sort | uniq
bash-2.05-15mdk
common-licenses-1.0-5mdk
db1-1.85-7mdk
glibc-2.2.4-20mdk
libaudiofile0-0.2.3-2mdk
libesound0-0.2.23-1mdk
libglade0-0.17-2mdk
libglade-gnome0-0.17-2mdk
libglib1.2-1.2.10-4mdk
libgnome32-1.4.1.2-11mdk
libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-18mdk
libimlib1-1.9.11-8mdk
libORBit0-0.5.13-1mdk
libxml-1.8.16-1mdk
XFree86-libs-4.1.0-22mdk
zlib1-1.1.3-18mdk

If not - which packages should *not* be added to the Requires: and why?

Alexander Skwar
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