On 2016-06-08, Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 08/06/16 15:21 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>I think -devel packages should not "Require: gcc" at all. Not with
>>%_isa and not without it.
>>
>>To actually compile something using those headers you need the C (or
>>C++) build environment installed anyway, i.e. you need 'gcc' (or
>>'gcc-c++') installed so there's no benefit to the package giving it as
>>a requirement.
>
> I forgot to add: if you don't want to actually compile using those
> headers, e.g. you just want to look at them for some reason, then you
> don't need the whole build env that 'gcc' installs.
>
This is a false argument. Applying this argument to any package we could
remove all dependencies because you can always only look at the files.

-- Petr
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