[Bug 172900] Review Request: htop

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Summary: Review Request: htop


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172900





------- Additional Comments From paul at city-fan.org  2005-11-11 11:10 EST -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> > Macros are useful where their expansions may be expected to change at some
> > point, but that's not the case for the %{name} macro,
> Why?
> 
> If you want to change the name of package (i.e. "Name: bar" instead of "Name:
> foo") sometimes in the future, you will must do a lot of manual changes in the
> spec file. To avoid this, %{name} macro is used.

Seriously, how often do package names change? And if it did, there would
probably be a whole host of other changes needed too, such as for the URL, the
binary name, the manpage etc.



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