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.