On July 13, 2006 3:07:12 PM -0400 Michael Jennings <mej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday, 13 July 2006, at 14:54:16 (-0400),
Jonathan Reed wrote:
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.
...and creates a new, independent, unversioned copy of these macros in
every SRPM you create or build. Or that anyone else builds. That's
even worse than putting them in the spec file.
Like static libraries all over again.
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