On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 06:13:13PM -0600, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > >Ideally, every line in a package definition (specfile or what have you) > >is only there because of some exception from the typical case. For well-behaved > >upstreams, the perfect packaging description would be _empty_. > I don't see how %files could ever be implicit. _Especially_ with the "unlisted file in buildroot" check rpmbuild has had for, like, a decade now, it's really pretty much busywork. RPM knows what's there and wants it all included or all removed. The only useful function what people are describing here: "alert packager that something has changed and force action", and there's _definitely_ better ways to do that. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
