On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:13 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
On Fri, 2018-05-11 at 09:33 -0500, Merlin Mathesius wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'd like a quick opinion on spec file style...
>
> Nearly all specs I've seen dealing with subpackages group all the
> %package/%description stanzas near the beginning, and put all the %files
> stanzas near the the end. (Example 1 below)
>
> However, are there any reasons, stylistic or otherwise, that the %files
> stanzas shouldn't be grouped with their corresponding
> %package/%description stanzas? (Example 2 below) Especially when there
> are a large number of subpackages...
I've seen a few packages that do it that way. I don't think
there's any
technical or policy reason not to. It's just a stylistic/practical
choice.
The only technical reason to group them all together is if you're making a
macro to evaluate to multiple subpackages. It's way simpler that way.
Otherwise, it's a style choice.
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