On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 1:06 AM Tom Hughes via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On 30/11/2020 23:14, Christoph Junghans wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 4:05 PM Tom Hughes via devel > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > >> > >> On 30/11/2020 22:06, Tom Stellard wrote: > >> > >>> As part of the f34 change request[1] for removing make from the > >>> buildroot, I will be doing a mass update of packages[2] to add > >>> BuildRequires: make where it is needed. > >> > >> What happened to excluding packages which use cmake? > > The packages would still need to depend on make or ninja. > > Do we really have to go through this all again? > > As discussed in the previous cycle of this discussion > make is the default - if you use the %cmake macros without > specifying a backend then they will default to make which > means you just run cmake and it runs make. > > In that circumstance the package correctly depends on > cmake, and it depends on make as it's chosen backend and > there is no reason for the packager to know or care which > backend cmake has chosen to use. > > I thought that had eventually been accepted by the authors > of this proposal but I see no sign of that in the latest list > of affected packages. > > But I guess at this point I need to give up arguing and get > on with updating eleven packages...
I am unsure why there is so much confusion about this, because cmake *does* Require make: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cmake/blob/master/f/cmake.spec#_185 So, will this dependency be removed? Otherwise the whole point is moot in the case of CMake. Fabio _______________________________________________ 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
