T. E. Pickering wrote: >maybe fedora could put those .rpmrc and .rpmmacro files and the >~/rpmbuild hierarchy in /etc/skel so that newly created users will be >good to go right off the bat. > > Too heavy stuff for /etc/skel IMHO. Minimal "build rpms as non-root" setup requires only one-line ~/.rpmmacros file (_topdir) and a few directories.