On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:47 AM Daniel Mach <dmach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm wondering if this is your personal initiative or if you're sync with > ELN people. I emailed them in January about the very same idea (and I > used the very same name; we both seem to like Gentoo), we exchanged > couple emails, but never got an answer if this is the way to go. Since I > have a lot of problems of my own (dnf, rpm, modularity), I did not want > to start this as my personal initiative. > Yes, Petr is in fact ELN people and he's working on this at least partly within that context (though the benefits are not exclusive to ELN). We looked at your approach, but it seemed like you were advocating for dealing with this somehow at the libdnf layer, which we didn't think was the right place. If we misunderstood, that's on us. > I'm really glad that someone's looking into this finally. > BTW, the new libdnf spec is using this approach already: > https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/blob/dnf-5-devel/libdnf.spec > Well, not exactly. But it's similar. The main advantage here is that we can define some things globally for all packages.a > Since I'm part of RPM team too, I hope they won't mind if I'll speak for > them :) Don't you rather want to work with us on extending the existing > with/without macros? I'd prefer to improve the existing approach over > creating something brand new. We could also reuse existing rpmbuild > --with/--without arguments and ideally remain backwards compatible. Could you explain a bit more what this means to you? I'm not sure what you would want to do in RPM itself. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
