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Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Oct 2 02:19:50 UTC 2006


On Sunday 01 October 2006 20:12, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> 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.

Lack of education?  Maybe the developer isn't aware of the %exclude, or would 
rather just remove the files anyway.  I use rm to remove static libraries 
rather than exclude them.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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