Fedora Extras, Fedora Core CVS Open!

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
>> I also would like to hear what you think the drawbacks are to allowing
>> the extra macros to constrast with the list advantages you see.
>
> BTW Matthias sneaked in some macros from RPMforge exactly the way I would
> like to too ! :) I thought I should mention it.
>
> Maybe I shouldn't talk about it, but just do it and see what people think.
> Afterall it's not rocket science, it doesn't add complexity and it makes
> a lot of sense to do. But I have the clear feeling that talking about it
> abstractly does not get the right message through as people expect the
> worse to come out of it.

Shock horror, many many RH's own packages have various switches, toggles 
and macros to deal with building on several distro versions. I don't think 
anybody is talking about *banning* using macros for that when it doesn't 
unnecessarily complicate the spec. The way I see it building for several 
distributions is simply not a *priority* because of the shortish lifespan,
and also it remains to be seen whether extras is going to be a "rolling 
release" or more like Core where not each and every package is updated 
once a new version comes out.

 	- Panu -