From: Prarit Bhargava on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1779#note_9458461...
Ohh, and another quick comment: with all the changes you are currently
preparing for the makefiles, how hard would it be to start making things like this a bit more neutral for non-RHEL platforms? Something like s/RHEL_RELEASE/ARK_RELEASE/ maybe?
I've seen two trains of thought on these types of changes and I'm leaning towards not making these types of changes. The first, is that changing RHEL/rhel references to ARK/(ark or dist) is not worth it and is a significant amount of change. It's also a headache for the RHEL maintainers when ARK is snapshotted for a particular RHEL release.
The second, which is one you are advocating for, is that we should be (as you said) "more neutral" for non-RHEL clones. There is some merit in that, but one comment I heard when I tried to de-rhel-ify some of the code and Makefiles was that it wasn't worth it to make these types of changes.
Of course, as with all things code related, I can be convinced otherwise.