Re: Packaging Guidelines: Why so lax for BuildRoot?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 00:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>  It's 100% nuts that the BuildRoot tag even exists.  This is
> something
>  that could and should be handled by intelligence inside rpmbuild,
>  with no need to try to herd developers into agreeing on whatever the
>  theory-of-the-month is.
>  
>  Expecting specfiles to rm -rf the buildroot is just as stupid.
>  
>  I don't grasp why anyone is thinking that hundreds (thousands?) of
>  Fedora developers should deal with these things, rather than fixing it
>  once in RPM itself. 
+1

Exchanging ugly for a slightly different sort of ugly brokenness is a
futile waste of time. Either fix it right, or don't bother.