Because adding it as a %Source ensures that it will be in the SRPM,
as opposed to simply listing it as a BuildPreReq, which requires that
you go get it from somewhere, and makes rpmbuild --rebuild a trivial
one-step process.
On Jul 13, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Frank Cusack wrote:
On July 13, 2006 12:58:54 PM -0400 Jonathan Reed <jdreed@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
I think it's poor form to make some random macro package a
requirement to rebuild an RPM.
And how is that different than %include'ing an arbitrary macro
file, whose
versioning you know even less of than if it were an rpm package?
-frank
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