>>>>> "PK" == Philip Kovacs via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> writes:
PK> Years ago when I was writing my specs to add the packages I now
PK> maintain, I recall someone recommended to me the use of these macros as
PK> Fedora "tribal knowledge." I am happy to remove mine if their use is
PK> unnecessary and could lead to breakage.
They have been banned by the Fedora packaging guidelines for quite a
long time now:
Macro forms of system executables SHOULD NOT be used except when there
is a need to allow the location of those executables to be
configurable. For example, rm should be used in preference to %{__rm},
but %{__python} is acceptable.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_macros
Though now I believe that statement now needs revision itself as we have
also banned unversioned python macros. Will have to think of better
language for that.
- J<
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