Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:12, Jon Nettleton wrote: > > I see the use of rm commands all the time in spec files. Â Can anyone > > explain why this is used instead of the %exclude directive? Â Not > > important, just curious because excluding files seems like a much safer > > and elegant solution. > Lack of education? Maybe the developer isn't aware of the %exclude, or > would rather just remove the files anyway. I use rm to remove static > libraries rather than exclude them. What is sorely needed is a RPM reference... the "Maximum RPM" book is nice as narrative, but almost useless at the time of designing a new .spec file -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
