On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

>
> You can also remove the "rpmbuild" executable as all of its
> functionality is also in "rpm". Also, you can remove a dozen installed
> scripts in case you don't need them...
>

Actually rpmbuild CLI _COULD_ be added to rpm afain, but has not been  
done
afair.

You are correct that rpmbuild uses rpmlib quite extensively, and the
silly --specfile and --specsrpm queries may very well force -lrpmbuild
these days.

73 de Jeff