On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> A lot of perl packages (at least) use the macro %{_fixpermss}. Defined
> in /usr/lib/rpm/macros (from rpm itself), the macro uses chmod. When
> reviewing a new package of mine, the reviewer said I should BR
> coreutils because of that, which makes sense... although thinking about
> it, should a package really need to do that? It kind of feels like rpm
> should handle Requires: for anything needed to implement the core set of
> macros, and packages should then expect those macrors to "just work".
> BRing coreutils for that feels like knowing an implementation detail
> that shouldn't be spread across a ton of packages.
