[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Macro arguments do not support quoting (#222)

[Jeff Johnson]

There are 2 issues that would need to be solved if you wish portability within versions of rpm macro expansion:

* adding -I to the Python interpreter in use
* handling a possible space in the file name

There are means to solve both of those issues by not using parameterized macros (because it's unclear whether -I is a parameterized macro or a Python option) and by elimininating the usage of position sensitive %1 (by expanding within single quotes before executing Python).

YMMV, everyone's does. Retrofitting macro context within single quotes (or the very ugly %{quote: ...}, or changing behavior to expand arguments before passing to a parameterized macro, is almost certainly going to have a legacy code behavior debt that cannot be solved adequately.

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