Well, we don't need to allow %global.
Anyway, let's move a step back and talk about this issue. This is about one
shot macros. Implementation wise this is not hard, it's more a question of
syntax.
It would be nice to have the following options:
- literal: do not expand the macro when using it
- global: put macro in global namespace
- expand: expand macro right away
- once: cache expanded macro (this issue)
So %global is %define plus the global + expand flags.
Macro names can't start with a `-`, so we could make use normal options:
```
%global foo bar
%define -g -x foo bar
```
As next step can can discuss how we support this in the macro files ;)
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