Removal GCC and friends from the buildroot 
        is different than 

adding new conflicting BRs which impair Clang usability

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018,

Igor Gnatenko started:
> > > 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.


Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
 
> > After adding explicite gcc/g++ in BuildRequires it will be extreamly
> > hard to switch use for example to use clang.
> >
> > Congratulation.


and this snipeing came in from: Przemek Klosowski:

> Come on now...


You 'tutt tutt' this objection, but it seems that the 
secondary effects of the change are not well thought through.  
As an alternative, adding a 'virtual build requirement' such 
as for:
        BR: CCP-compiler

and adding a manual:
        Provides: CCP-compiler

to: gcc-c++

and so forth, would make this a non-invasive change.  Why ** 
not ** choose such a route?

Obviously, clang would also need a manual:
        Provides: CCP-compiler

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What is the need to force breakage, rather than doing it in 
'friendly' way?

-- Russ herrold
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