Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505360 --- Comment #7 from Patrick Monnerat <pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-02-23 05:51:24 EST --- Sorry to tell you, but I do not agree with this suggestion for the following reasons: _ Although these macros are effectively defined in the /usr/lib/rpm/macros file, they are mainly intended to ease porting specs from the old Mandrake distribution. The 2 years-old page you reference to is annotated "This page could probably be deleted... Doesn't seem to be much useful information" and the referring page (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:RPMMacros#Reference) lists it only as a conversion aid from Mandrake spaces (altough not forbidding use of this macros, I conceed to you). _ I did not find usage references to these macros in the packaging guidelines, neither as a requirement nor even as a recommandation. _ The use of these macros is not very frequent in current Fedora spec files. _ Finally, I do not like them: they lower the spec file readability and they introduce a dependency to their definitions while it is unlikely that their defined value changes sometime. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review