https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1822971



--- Comment #68 from David Cantrell <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Nick Black from comment #65)
> Regarding the BuildsRequires, I would personally look to the precedent of
> cpp #includes and ld linking. There, if <stdio.h> #includes <math.h> I'm
> still expected to #include <math.h> if I'm using a symbol on the API
> boundary exported by <math.h>, and I'm still expected to link any library
> where I'm using a symbol at the ABI boundary, even if I would get it
> transitively.
> 
> Thus my opinion is to go with the explicit dependency, if only because my
> UNIX forefathers did.
> 
> In that same vein, I wasn't going to make an issue of it in my first package
> review.

Eiher way is now your choice.  Miro's points are entirely valid.  I stand by my
tendency to keep the BuildRequires list as small as possible because I think
about SRPMs less as standalone source files and more part of a single Borg hive
where the only thing we do is topological sorting.


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