On 21 August 2011 15:44, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do have to wonder why those macros are used... it seems quite trivial
> to use the actual commands directly and that ultimately increases
> portability (which maybe isn't a major concern, but all the same)
>
> What are the general thoughts on this?
As a 12+ years maintainer of mdv/mdv/mga, I think most spec don't use those.
They don't bring anything anyway.
If only, we could standardize on the most usefull macros between distro at first
(eg %make vs make %{?_smp_mflags})
