Once upon a time, Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com> said: > One of the most problematic things are transitive BuildRequires: > Even if you know you need to keep libfoo.i686 and libbar.i686, how do > you determine the transitive dependencies that are needed to keep > those packages around? > And by that, I don't only mean Requires, but also transitive > BuildRequires, i.e. if libfoo BuildRequires foolangc, which > BuildRequires some other stuff, etc, all of which still needs to be > there, or at some point, libfoo.i686 will either fail to build or fail > to install.
All the necessary info is in the source RPM BuildRequires. Yes, you'll need a script to build the list recursively, but... that's not that hard. > I have thought about this issue for months before submitting this > Change proposal, and it's the best I think we can do without breaking > tons of stuff or requiring massive amounts of work from the Change > owner (me). At this point, I do think that a safe and officially > encouraged opt-out mechanism for individual package maintainers is the > only way we can do this *safely* at all. There are almost 23,000 source RPMs in rawhide. You are proposing a change that puts virtually all the effort on the maintainers of the majority of those packages, rather than write a script yourself (which should not be "massive amounts of work"). It's easy to propose something when somebody else has to do the work; please instead put some work in yourself (or don't propose the change). -- Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
