> > >>Because common-licenses is required by basesystem. It should always be >>on your system, so there is really no need to list it. >> > >Well, if I remove basesystem (which is required by nothing), I could >also easily remove common-licenses if every packager would follow your >rule. This would cause that the user would have no copy of the GPL on >his system. However, if every package requires common-licenses, this >cannot happen (excluding cases where the user --nodeps a package >removal). > This really funny... I had the exact same questions / remarks / opinion just 2 months ago. I guess you need to talk to snailtalk :-)
There is an unwritten rule that basesystem should always be installed on the system. Yes, you can uninstall it (and them many of the packages required by it) and your system might still run fine. If we adding basesystem as a buildrequires to each src.rpm would work (I wouldn't suggest we do this though). Please take a look at the mail I've just forwarded to you, it has a nice possible solution for the required in rpm-build... >What about my other questions? > I'm sorry if I've missed a few... This is probably my last e-mail B4 we repartiate back to Europe... I'll be offline for a while :-/
