Global definitions (Re: Python Eggs and problem with %{python_sitelib})

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 00:58 +0100, Michał Bentkowski wrote:
> 15-01-08, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> napisał(a):
> > You have to define it in the spec,
> >
> 
> It's a good occasion to ask why. Why don't we define it globally?
> A few more snippets can be found that would be good to already
> defined. For example: everybody needs to type the same lines to update
> gtk icon cache. Does anything stands in the way to define
> %update_gtk_icon_cache globally?
Yes. 

Once such rpm-macros are in, one can not get rid of them anymore.

Ralf