Problems with core review
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Tue Feb 6 20:58:20 UTC 2007
Warren Togami wrote:
> Joe Orton wrote:
>>
>> But I will always resist arbitrary changes which lack technical
>> justification (or are just plain undesirable); the fact that such
>> changes are proposed as part of the Review Process does not make them
>> sacrosanct.
>
> Regarding RPM_SOURCE_DIR vs. SOURCEn, doesn't the latter make it simply
> easier to read and maintain? The former requires you to have file names
> written in two or more places.
>
> Sure it isn't against the rules to use the former, but why not make it
> cleaner and easier to read?
Maybe in packages with like two source files. In the gecko packages,
it's sort of a pain. I have always loathed the numbering myself in
these packages, not only for source files but also for patch files. I
suppose I hadn't realized there was an alternative else I'd have
probably switched a while ago.
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