[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Automatic (sub)package generators (#329)

[nim-nim]

And, you absolutely need the pivot and subvariables set spec-wide, in the preamble or some early section, because a lot of the domain info will be used in several spec sections, not just in %files, %build, %whatever.

For example Free Desktop people invented the idiotic appstream descriptor for font files, which is so ass backwards even Gnome’s own Bistream Vera or Cantarell ship it.

So one of the fonts subvariables if %{fontappstreamX}. If set, will use the packager-specified appstream files (a couple font projects were sucked into writing those before everyone noticed it was a waste of time). If not set font package automation will compute those in `%install` from the files actually installed at that point, and use the result in `%files` (would be cleaner to do it as `%build` `%install` `%files` but at `%build` stage you do not know yet which files will be installed and need appstreaming)

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