On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:52 PM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > As per Changes/Remove GCC from BuildRoot > > <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remove_GCC_from_BuildRoot>, I'm > > going to automatically add BuildRequires: gcc and/or BuildRequires: > > gcc-c++ to packages which fail to build with common messages (like gcc: > > command not found, also autotools/cmake/meson are supported). > > > > I'm going to do this tomorrow. > > > > After which, I'm going to ask rel-eng to finally remove it from > buildroot. > > This will happen before mass rebuild. Stay tuned. > > I still think that this change is absolutely counterproductive, because it > will actually INCREASE local mock build times for all C/C++ programs for > all > packagers, because gcc and gcc-c++ will no longer be included in the root > cache. > However, it will DECREASE local mock build times for all non-C/C++ programs. And now we will know which packages actually need C and/or C++ compiler. A lot of packages in 2018 are not written in C/C++, welcome to XXI century! > It is also yet another pointless mass change to a huge number of packages, > right after the %defattr one. > It came up multiple times and we are pretty much in agreement that we *need* such cleanups. -- -Igor Gnatenko
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