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[Denis Leroy]

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