On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 06:55 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2007 02:53:04 Michael Schwendt wrote: > > Adding macro usage without adding the macros to "something like > > redhat-rpm-config" is not good. > > > > Historically, the plan has always been to add the macros to such a > > package. Hearing about "resistance" is news to me. > > > > It is already unexpected and inconvenient enough to need "--define fedora > > 6" or similar when rebuilding some packages. > > I see criticism here for how we use the buildsystem, but I don't see an actual > opinion as to making these macros work on the installed system. OK you want some critical remarks: - in a proper implementation, all "redhat" macros should be encapsulated into "target" files (/usr/lib/rpm/<target>) - whether the build-sys macros are being merged into redhat-rpm-config doesn't matter much, because redhat-rpm-config already kills rpmbuild "--target" - All "vendor" macros are potentially harmful (Once they are in, you almost never can get rid of them). The buildsystem macros add further to this pollution. > I assume from your last sentence that you're in favor, but I'd rather not make > assumptions. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
