<p>I put it there because the spec says:</p>
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<p>Build systems MUST NOT overwrite this variable for child processes to consume if it is already present.</p>
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<p>But then, it probably does not apply if we had set it ourselves (and not the user) for the previous rpm to build.</p>

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