On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 12:14:43PM +0200, Petr Pisar wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 02:43:41PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Might it not be easier to use the newly-allowed boolean dependencies, e.g. > > in rpm-build something like this: > > > > Requires: (perl-generators if perl-libs) > > > That's interesting idea. I only worry there could be cases when the > perl-generators were unnecessarily installed. E.g. you install vim-enhanced, > thus you have perl-libs, and you install rpm-build for building non-perl > packages. Then you will have perl-generators. I'm not sure how much it > would bother people. > Another issue: FESCo banned the rich dependencies <https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1563#comment:7>.
I'm not against adding the suggested conditional dependency to make the build root more compatible. I only feel telling packagers "you don't have to build-require perl-generators" and then adding "but you have sometimes" a little bit confusing and hard to follow. -- Petr
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