On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 12:48 PM Vít Ondruch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I for one think that macros such as `%rhel` are antipattern. They > > * prevent innovation > > * make the spec harder to read > > * make the life harder for proven packages doing some (mini-)mass > rebuilds and trying to fix things > > * tend to age similarly bad to comments in code (granted, there were > recently introduced Packit ELN tests, so it is a bit easier to spot some > breakage) >
And lately, spec files with %rhel have gotten pretty ugly. There are increasing cases where there's total divergence of packaging styles in the same spec for the same "family" (if you consider Fedora and RHEL in the same family like most people do). Again, if we decide we're allowing this, we should just drop the restriction entirely and provide direct guidance on permitted flows for distro conditionals, regardless of distro. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
