[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: BuildRequires generator (#104)

[Colin Walters]

I think the solution is to not try to improve RPM here, just do what everyone in the world that hit this has done: move to generating specs via a better build system.

Examples:

 - [Yocto/OpenEmbeded](https://www.yoctoproject.org/)
 - [Clear Linux autospec](https://github.com/clearlinux/autospec)

And there's the vast existing set of dynamic language -> spec tools, like the venerable [cpan2rpm](http://search.cpan.org/dist/cpan2rpm/cpan2rpm)
and this [gofed](https://github.com/gofed/gofed) one for golang in fedora.

There are obviously challenges to this route too, like if you support *multiple* generators then they need to learn how to interact for dependencies.  However, I think a lot of those issues can be solved by having everything use provides rather than package names for example.  (And this would require generating provides for everything)



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