[OE-core] [CONSOLIDATED PULL 00/40] Review and ACK

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 18 July 2013 11:52:22 Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 18 July 2013 07:34, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >   valgrind: added perl dependency
> 
> I presume the situation here is that a target perl wasn't actually
> built, so adding an explicit runtime dependency causes it to be built
> and therefore available in the feed for rpm to find.
> 
> To me this says that the #!-to-dependency magic from rpmdeps isn't
> really useful, as we then have to go and put explicit dependencies
> back in to ensure the requirements are actually built.

I have to say I too have wondered this. Perhaps these would be better 
implemented as QA warnings (that could be defaulted to errors) rather than 
just silently adding the dependencies.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre