On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 00:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Expecting specfiles to rm -rf the buildroot is just as stupid. Thank you Tom! It is such a nasty violation of basic encapsulation that should offend any hacker's sense of good, right and pretty. It is quite remarkable how such a ugly wart can survive for so long in an environment of highly technical people with a passion for what they do... :) And it's not just ugly, but just incredibly dangerous. Old timers might remember how this idiotic rm -rf $BUILDROOT business would result in a rm -rf / when you'd build a .rpm as root. I got bit by it, and it hurt. Badly. -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
