[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE OptionalBuildRequires (#577)

[Tom de Vries]

> You're basically asking for `BuildRecommends`?

You're referring to ["BuildRecommends proposal"](https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2001-June/msg00193.html). Thanks for pointing that out.

Indeed, that looks very similar.

There is a difference though: the BuildRecommends tag naming suggest that using the dependency is the desirable situation, and therefore the proposal adds options "--pedantic" (as well as "--quiet"), and generates an error with "--pedantic".

The OptionalBuildRequires tag expresses a take it or leave it approach, and would generate a note when not including the dependency, but would not result in an error.

So the difference is in policy of how to handle the absence of the dependency.

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