[EPEL-devel] epel-release: consider adding %epel macro ?

[Rex Dieter]

Jeff Sheltren wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Rex Dieter
> <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> ping, any comment or objection?
>>
>> I'll work on a patch for epel-release to implement a %{epel} macro, in
>> case anyone was waiting for implementation details.
>>
>>
> Seems like it can't hurt much to have such a macro defined by the
> epel-release package.  Could you give an example of the kind of logic
> you'd use this for?

Sure.  My primary motivation is that I'd like be able keep fedora/rhel kde 
packaging merged in fedora's git repos.  *Normally*, rhel kde packaging 
disables some features ( based on %rhel macro), but I'd like to be able 
(re)enable those via some "extras" macro, like %epel.  This is one approach 
redhat's kde maintainers agreed would be acceptable.

-- Rex