On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 07:04:38PM +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > Build System wrote : > > > - Use %{_mandir} and %{_initrddir}. > > Once again, as I never got any answers nor comments about this one : > Why is it _initrddir for /etc/rc.d/init.d??? It has nothing to do with the > initial ramdisk, which is (AFAIK) _the_ initrd. > Is it a typo of the person who introduced that macro into rpm, or...? It can only be a typo, the question is what should be do, continue using the wrongly typed macro or introduce something new in parallel (_initdir or _rcinitdir for instance), and have the old one being deprecated? I'd like the latter to happen, but since this is a cosmetic buglet and only seen by people under the hood it will be considered low priority by whoever would decide this. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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