Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 11:33, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:11 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 09:32, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
Please review http://nim.fedorapeople.org/rpm-fonts/rpm-fonts-1.8-1.fc11.src.rpm and the other files in this directory, and propose ameliorations before we make it the backbone of our Fedora 11 font packages.
I will vote against this proposal and this package.
Rationale: All these macros do is causing further pollution of the rpm macros, break many details (try rpmbuild --define '_datadir /opt/foo' and add further cross distro-portability issues (Consider RHEL3 or rpm's from other distros).
May be you recall the issues with Mandrake / Mandriva macros and with SuSE-macros, now you seem to be wanting to conduct Fedora into the same direction.
What I've seen last year is: 1. packagers reinvent those independently (usually with bugs), so there's no drawbacks and lots of benefits in providing them a clean audited centralised version instead. 2. when you push too much logic in individual packages, this logic is not updated (when fc-cache arguments change) 3. the current guidelines are not easy enough for most packagers.
If you don't agree with my solution to those problems please be constructive and propose another better one.
Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 11:33, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
I will vote against this proposal and this package.
Rationale: All these macros do is causing further pollution of the rpm macros, break many details (try rpmbuild --define '_datadir /opt/foo' and add further cross distro-portability issues (Consider RHEL3 or rpm's from other distros).
May be you recall the issues with Mandrake / Mandriva macros and with SuSE-macros, now you seem to be wanting to conduct Fedora into the same direction.
Also if you would just look at it you'd see the whole thing is totally autonomous from the rpm package, and could be deployed as-is on other distributions releases (or plain other distributions)
Taking of course into account all fontconfig versions are not equal and one needs to adapt the base package to the capabilities of the fontconfig provided by the distro he targets.