[Mageia-dev] [RFC] remove support for /etc/rpm/macros.d/*.macros

[Christiaan Welvaart]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Olivier Blin wrote:

> Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:47:54PM +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>>> I would like to drop that patch from rpm (one less to maintain).
>>> That means basically renaming files:
>>>   /etc/rpm/macros.d/foobar.macros => /etc/rpm/macros/macros.foobar
>> [..]
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> I thought latest idea that /etc is solely for the sysadmin, so shouldn't
>> above be:
>>   /usr/rpm/macros/macros.foobar
>
> Right, these macros are not supposed to be edited by the sysadmin, we
> could even use /usr/lib/rpm/macros.<foo>
> (we already use this for perl, php, python, systemd)

They are not automatically included it seems (consistent with earlier 
posted code from rpm).


     Christiaan