Rex Dieter (rdie...@math.unl.edu) said: 
> Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:09:26AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > 
> >> This is not an arm specific issue. in the past systemd was pulled into
> >> the minimal buildroot via deps. That has changed and its no longer
> >> pulled in. on x86 as well as arm.
> > 
> > Several of my packages now fail to build, because more docs are build,
> > e.g. PDF versions appeared. Did someone compile a list of packages that
> > were added/removed to the buildroot?
> > 
> >> The packages that are explicitly pulled in are:
> >> bash  bzip2 coreutils cpio diffutils fedora-release findutils
> >> gawk gcc gcc-c++ grep gzip info make patch redhat-rpm-config
> >> rpm-build sed shadow-utils tar unzip util-linux which xz
> >> 
> >> There is no need to BuildRequire  any of them, what they pull in is
> >> subject to change and should be added as a BuildRequires
> > 
> > Actually the guidelines say otherwise:
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Exceptions_2
> > | There is no need to include the following packages or their
> >                                                      ^^^^^^^^
> > | dependencies as BuildRequires because they would occur too often.
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Turns out the "or their dependencies" part changed in this case, nothing 
> particularly wrong about that.
> 
> The idea is to avoid silly stuff like:
> 
> BuildRequires: glibc
> BuildRequires: filesystem

Is it worth just moving systemd into that minimal set?

Bill
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