Re: rawhide report: 20060929 changes

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 20:41 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > What-no-why-how-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
> > Is it being moved to extra?
> 
> I'd guess it's certainly possible, and it's probably going to get done faster 
> if you submit it. ;-) Creating an Extras package from a Core subpackage is 
> actually pretty easy, take the Core specfile, disable the build of everything 
> you don't need built for that subpackage, add rm commands for everything else, 
> and use just the file list of the former subpackage.

I see the use of rm commands all the time in spec files.  Can anyone
explain why this is used instead of the %exclude directive?  Not
important, just curious because excluding files seems like a much safer
and elegant solution.

Jon