On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:56:32PM +0100, Jan Kurik wrote: > Proposed System Wide Change: Remove GCC from BuildRoot > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot > > > Owner(s): > * Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain at fedoraproject dot org> > > > Removing gcc and gcc-c++ from default buildroot in Koji and mock. > > > > == Detailed description == > Since beginning of Fedora, gcc (and gcc-c++) are installed in every > buildroot. Times have changed and nowadays many of packages are not > written in C/C++, they are written in Python, Ruby, Node.js, Go, Rust, > OCaml, Perl and so on so they don't need to have C/C++ compiler. > Installing gcc and gcc-c++ takes time so if we remove it, we can > improve build times for many of the packages. > > > == Scope == > * Proposal owners: > Remove gcc, gcc-c++ from build group in Koji and from buildsys-build > group in comps. > > * Other developers: > Maintainers should follow guidelines and add BuildRequires: gcc if > they need it during build (this guideline exists for long time).
I feel like this is something that many many many packages will not have present. For a long time it was acceptable to omit BuildRequires for stuff that was in the default build root, and while the C/C++ packaging guidelines do say you need BR: gcc, I expect most packagers have never noticed this changed. IOW, if we remove gcc/gcc-c++ from the build root, *before* fixing up packages we're going to create a huge pile of rebuild failures. Can we please do something here to identify which packages likely have missing BR: gcc and automatically fix up the specs, rather than creating 100's of failing packages and then waiting weeks in a broken state for maintainers to fix them up. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
