Systemd macros (f18+)

[Tom Lane]

Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> writes:
> But then we'd introduce two macros now, for two old distros, that make
> no sense on the next distros anymore but we could never get rid of them
> anymore, because we'd break the old packages...

So what?  It's not like the carrying cost of redundant macros is
anything significant.  Meanwhile, by refusing to do this you are
inconveniencing a lot of package maintainers for whom the costs
of having different specfiles in different branches *are* significant.

			regards, tom lane