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Denis Leroy
denis at poolshark.org
Mon Oct 2 06:40:55 UTC 2006
Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 20:41 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> What-no-why-how-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
>>> Is it being moved to extra?
>> I'd guess it's certainly possible, and it's probably going to get done faster
>> if you submit it. ;-) Creating an Extras package from a Core subpackage is
>> actually pretty easy, take the Core specfile, disable the build of everything
>> you don't need built for that subpackage, add rm commands for everything else,
>> and use just the file list of the former subpackage.
>
> I see the use of rm commands all the time in spec files. Can anyone
> explain why this is used instead of the %exclude directive? Not
> important, just curious because excluding files seems like a much safer
> and elegant solution.
First time i read about this %exclude directive. Does an exhaustive
reference of the directives and their options even exist ?
-denis
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