Re: Macros available in Fedora but not RHEL <= 4: Create epel-rpm-config?

[Patrice Dumas <pertusus free fr>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:24:18PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 
> Also, would it be possible to have macros per distribution like RPMforge 
> is doing ?
> 
> So that something like this becomes possible:
> 
>   %{?el3:%define _without_alsa 1}
> 
>   %{!?_without_alsa:BuildRequires: alsa-lib-devel}
> 
> I understand this is another item that may cause a fierce battle between 
> proponents and opponents. It makes it much shorter and less obtrusive to 
> use these macros.

Unless I'm wrong this is already accepted and used. See 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/DistTag?action=show&redirect=DistTag#head-1c550109af0705ccb71329619b99428af2fd3e25

Or is it something else that you have in mind?

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Pat