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This will allow to relax rpm-build-* dependencies, hopefully without adding
new essential dependencies to rpm (note that rpm already depends on sh and
coreutils; now this also includes grep, and possibly should include sed,
awk, and gzip).
Consider mono-mcs package, which is mono C# compiler. Recently I added
dependency on rpm-build-mono to this package, to enable automatic support
for mono dependencies whenever mono compiler is used. Now the problem
is that rpm-build-mono depends on rpm-build (via /usr/lib/rpm/functions),
and rpm-build in turn requires a lot of packages, e.g. gcc and autotools,
for the purpose of populating base build environment.
To put it another way, the problem is that it is impossible to install
mono compiler (with automatic support for mono dependencies) without also
installing gcc and stuff, which is roughly 100M of unrelated packages.
This seems like a minor problem to me, since every "devel" package (including
compilers) can conventionally require base build environment. However,
Alexander Bokovoy argues that school kids desperately need mono-mcs compiler
on their desktops without gcc and another stuff from the base build environment!
The upshot is that possibly we want to relax rpm-build-* dependencies,
so that those "support for dependencies" packages do not require
full-fledged rpm-build. The easiest way to accomplish this is to
move /usr/lib/rpm/functions from rpm-build to rpm package. I also
choose to move /usr/lib/rpm/find-package as well, along with making
/usr/lib/rpm/.provides.sh, so that rpm-build-* packages depend on
something like /usr/lib/rpm(Fatal), not just rpm.
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