[GuidelinesChange] Prepping BuildRoot For %install

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 07:10 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 09 April 2007 23:44:07 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Just outta curiosity, why is it not considered an RPM bug that every
> > specfile has to take care of this detail?  Seems like it'd be trivial
> > to fix it once instead of memorializing this oversight in every package
> > till the end of time.
> 
> It's not that we don't consider it a bug, it's that we don't feel that this 
> bug can be "fixed" in rpm any time soon.  There are far bigger issues that 
> our RPM team are trying to tackle.  So until such time that it is fixed in 
> rpm, we still have to manage it correctly within our specs.  Same with 
> buildroot, etc...

Oh come on. This is a 5 line change in rpm, at most...