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+ <B>Per &#216;yvind Karlsen</B>
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+ <I>Mon Jan 17 23:50:32 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>2011/1/17 Florian Hubold &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">doktor5000 at arcor.de</A>&gt;:
+&gt;<i> Am 15.01.2011 11:08, schrieb Remy CLOUARD:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=spec_syntax</A>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Please review this page as it&#8217;s one of the most important one for the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> beginning of the mentoring process, with the RPM Howto page (yet to be
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> imported).
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I have one comment, or more of a question: Why is it that some time ago
+</I>&gt;<i> there used to be this syntax as de-facto standard:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> %define name
+</I>&gt;<i> Name: %name
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Never understood this, so i went with what seems the new standard,
+</I>&gt;<i> which saves you at least 3 lines per spec and improving readability.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> So anyone can enlighten me why name, release and version had %defines?
+</I>Legacy practice which got stuck with some...
+
+'Name: foo' will always define %{name} now (which has been the case for ages),
+so there's no longer use in doing this anymore.
+It mainly adds unnecessary obscurity and confusion, please just drop this.
+
+--
+Regards,
+Per &#216;yvind
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