Dne 27. 04. 20 v 19:40 Daniel Mach napsal(a):
Dne 27. 04. 20 v 19:00 Stephen Gallagher napsal(a):
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:47 AM Daniel Mach dmach@redhat.com wrote:
Since I'm part of RPM team too, I hope they won't mind if I'll speak for them :) Don't you rather want to work with us on extending the existing with/without macros? I'd prefer to improve the existing approach over creating something brand new. We could also reuse existing rpmbuild --with/--without arguments and ideally remain backwards compatible.
Could you explain a bit more what this means to you? I'm not sure what you would want to do in RPM itself.
rpmbuild supports --with and --without options for setting the %with macros already. That allows you to make a local build with custom %with values. I suppose you'll need something similar for the new feature. From my perspective it would be better to re-use the existing options rather than introducing --use/--dont-use or something similar.
+1
This is the same concern I shared on different place of this thread.
Vít