c preprocessor.

[Martin Langhoff]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> is the only package that requires cpp. Next question - why does
> xorg-x11-server-utils require cpp?

According to the changelog

* Mon Nov 28 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 0.99.2-6
  - Added "Requires: cpp" as xrdb requires it for proper operation (#174302)

Which leads to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=174302
which is just plain horrid. But from a quick look it is common to all
distros.

What happens if we remove it? Well, it looks like Ubuntu tried, and
had to revert
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/control-center/+bug/21392

cheers,


m
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