On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:55:53 -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. > > I assume from your last sentence that you're in favor, but I'd rather not make > assumptions. Yes, I'm in favour of adding them. I find it ridiculous that Fedora spec files make use of macros, which are not available after installing the distribution. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
