[Fedora-packaging] Use of macros for standard commands & wishlist of helper programs

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 05/20/2009 02:39 PM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> First: should we have a policy of using macros for standard commands?
> RPM includes standard macros such as %{__mv}, %{__rm}, %{__mkdir},
> %{__cp}, %{__python}, %{__perl} and so on, which are used by some
> people.
> 
> I find that the use of these macros unnecessarily obscures the spec file
> and thus would like to have the ban on these as part of the Packaging
> Guidelines.

They're not incorrect, so while I personally agree that these are
generally unnecessary, I'm not sure it merits a ban.

~spot