Re: EPEL support in "master" branch (aka speeding up Fedora development)

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On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 at 07:36, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 14:33 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> > > What I'm trying to say here is that each time we want to implement
> > > some feature in Fedora, we either need to have some replacement in
> > > EPEL or diverge Fedora branches from EPEL branches. Having
> > > replacement is not always possible, especially if we start utilizing
> > > new (actually 8 years old) features of RPM.
> > 
> > I'd really like to see us tend towards coming up with macros that
> > provide elegant fallbacks on EPEL. (The %license macro is a good
> > example.)
> 
> There is no fallback for rich dependencies. There is no fallback for
> filetriggers.

Just a wild idea, how about:

%if 0%{rhel} && 0%{rhel} < 8
%global recommends Requires
%else
%global recommends Recommends
%endif

and then using

%{recommends}: foo

?

Regards,
Dominik
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