$RPM_BUILD_ROOT != %{buildroot} (was:Re: Prelink success story :))

[Mike A. Harris]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:

>> I'm kindof rather amused by people arguing over "Which should be
>> used $RPM_BUILD_ROOT or %{buildroot}?" so violently. 
>
>I don't see any violence here. You should not have skipped the messages.
>if want to build an opinion.

I haven't skipped any messages. I have however formed an opinion.  

My opinion is that a lot of people like to argue endlessly about 
very pointless and trive details of rpm packaging, to extreme 
pedantism.  Most of the arguments being purely of preferential 
nature, with no real right or wrong way, although both sides 
will generally declare their way right, and the other way 
totally and insanely wrong.  The other side then argues back with 
a similar but inverted argument, pointing out equally 
preferential arguments to prove the first person (or people) are 
wrong and they are right.

In the end, nothing actually happens other than 2 groups of 
people arguing with each other, neither of whom is going to 
convince the other group to change their mind.  Nobody changes 
their mind, and each group goes on doing things the way that they 
think is best, and then attacking each other once every n 
days/weeks/months whenever another person brings up the same 
topic.

It really is very much like vi vs. emacs.



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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat