<p>It's not so simple. You see it only as an annoying complication but AFAIK there are people who actually depend on the feature for generating file content. Just as an example:</p>
<pre><code>%build

cat << EOF >> fooscript
#!%{_bindir}/python

... do stuff ...
EOF
</code></pre>

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