[Fedora-packaging] Remove requirement to use macros for paths

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:34:10PM -0800, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 12:55 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> >Not so sure that the consistency argument is so strong that this is the
> >case.  As long as the macros used by the configure script and the hardcoded
> >paths used by the spec file are the same, nothing is broken.  If the macros
> >change, it's going to be because we want to change the paths that they point
> >to for all packages.  So we'd have to update any packages that use hardcoded
> >directories regardless of whether the hardcoded directories are also used
> >with %configure or not.
> 
> True, but if we kept the macros, then we could simply do a mass
> rebuild instead of needing to edit %files.
>
Agreed.  You snipped the part that I was replying to: if someone doesn't use
the macros for paths, then we should ban the use of the macros for
%configure.  I think that would be going a bit far.

-Toshio
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