On 07/10/2012 07:29 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
Hi,
I noticed that in revised haskell guidelines [1], there is mentioned the ghc-rpm-macros package, which provides macros.ghc file, which in turns provides some useful macros for packaging of Haskell packages. In Ruby, we provide similar macro files in ruby-devel and rubygems-devel subpackages respectively. Perl has their macros directly in the rpm package itself.
This seems to be a bit inconsistent to me. So my question is: shouldn't we standardize some best practices with regards of RPM macros? For example for Ruby, we placed the macros into -devel subpackages, because we believe that it is just development dependency. Any opinions?
Is this inconsistency causing problems? I think it is okay for the maintainers to make a call as to which package provides the macros, based on the specific environment.
~tom
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