[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo

Mon Aug 22 00:43:32 CEST 2011

Le Sunday 21 August 2011 23:16:24 Zé a écrit :
+> Hi,
+> 
+> Theres been a private discussion regarding the macro correct layout,
+> if %{foo} or %foo.
+> 
+> This rised when in the wiki page
+> http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kde4_packaging_policy i changed the
+> spec layout from %foo into %{foo} to be as a reference point, in wich
+> mikala has reverted back to %foo, and this discussion has taken other
+> porportions so i would like your opinions regarding this.
+> 
+> I have pointed that for a wiki page should be proper to use %{...} to
+> avoid doubts specially in beginners minds, since in some situations
+> we need really to use the {} delimitations.
+> In wich its recommendation its focused in this cute PDF from redhat
+> website:
+> 
+> http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Wednesday_130pm_
+> Tom_Callaway_OSS.pdf
+Maybe we can recall the situation & check on *this* SPEC layout where 
+the %{} is useful ?
+We're not even supposed to use macro with - (where indeed the use of %{} 
+) so as i said before for *our* KDE spec layout & KDE spec layout the 
+*default* spec should use %foo & not %{foo}, it's of course does not 
+prevent the use of %{foo} for people but we won't rewrite all specs like 
+you did for Qt4 just because you want to do it without asking first.
+
+Also could you explain why what was just a minor problem (when you 
+changed without even asking us our opinion) become suddently a *major* 
+problem which need suddenly a mail on -dev because i was not agree with 
+you.
+
+I'm in a general impression that in fact you don't care at all about my 
+opinion and if i'm not agree with you that's mean i'm just wrong...
+Yeah i still remember that you wrote on irc that i'm just too young to 
+maintain KDE at all, that you're really a *old* packager with *years* 
+and *years* of packaging, that's you're talking a lot with upstream when 
+i'm not etc etc ....
+
+Maybe you can still push a little bit more and i'll simply quit since 
+it's probably what you're looking for since several months...
+
+
+
+P.S: yeah i started to have enough now...
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+