On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Mikolaj Izdebski <mizde...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 01/12/2015 02:08 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > Dear Fedora developers,
> >
> > I'd like to collect some feedback about the $SUBJECT, i.e. making
> > minimal build root really minimal, explicitly specifying build
> > dependencies, etc.
>
> I strongly support this idea.
>
> In the past it probaby made sense to have GCC and friends in minimal
> buildroot, but nowdays we have packages written in dozen of different
> programming languages, which don't use GCC for compilation. It makes
> perfect sense to drop C-related build tools from Koji @bulid group.
>
>
I share this sentiment.

Additionally, I strongly prefer naming BuildRequires explicitly. It's
easier for contributors to understand what is going on, who can read a spec
file, but aren't familiar with the specific conventions of the distro. I'm
not a fan of "magic" dependencies.
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