On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 11:54:14 +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 11:52:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > On 10/8/19 3:26 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 13:03:48 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > 
> > > > Look, I'm no more in love with the traditional layout than anybody, I'm 
> > > > just
> > > > saying changing the default is not as simple as you'd like to think. 
> > > > Anybody
> > > > wanting to work on changing the default is welcome to propose it 
> > > > upstream,
> > > > patches welcome and all.
> > > 
> > > Would keeping this Fedora specific to begin with help slowly migrate
> > > people over? What if we announce this via the change process for F32?
> > > The change will be to modify `/usr/lib/rpm/macros` to use per-directory
> > > locations as you'd suggested in the snippet since it is closer to the
> > > dist-git workflow that is now in use. People can still easily revert to
> > > rpmbuild/*, and the contingency plan will be to just not make the
> > > change. I don't know how this would affect rpmdev-buildtree and how to
> > > handle that (remove it?).
> > > 
> > 
> > Changing rpm defaults will break existing setups, people will be unhappy and
> > I'll get the blame regardless of who actually did it.
> > 
> > I'd rather suggest changing rpmdev-setuptree to configure things that way,
> > it already modifies ~/.rpmmacros in various ways, some totally redundant
> > (like setting %_topdir to a longtime rpm default).
> > That starts nudging people towards that direction, but leaves existing
> > setups alone.
> 
> Sure. That sounds good. I'll see what I can come up with an open PRs
> etc.

PR filed: https://pagure.io/rpmdevtools/pull-request/48

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