[Rpm-maint] Automatic BuildRoot by default?

[Per Øyvind Karlsen]

On Thursday 12 June 2008 17:14:12 you wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 16:31 +0200, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:
> > Better wear your helmet on both the inside and outside of the 
house,
> > just in case..
>
> Careful, crazy is contagious. *cough*
>
> In all seriousness, I'm not convinced that the benefits of
> --short-circuit are worth the many many people who attempt to 
abuse it.
> A good spec should be able to build from beginning to end without 
having
> to be short-circuited. We aggressively discourage it in Fedora.
>
> ~spot
Not sure what world you live in, but I've never experienced any 
problems with such "abuse", nor am I even sure about what lies with 
that definition in this context.

Packagers don't want to a full rebuild of huge packages just to  test 
just even the most minor change made etc.
And regardless of usage, it's not rpm's job to dictate and enforce 
such policies in rather futile attempts to prevent "abuse" within it's 
world where the user has far worse thing they can do ie. just within 
the spec.
For dictating policies and such, it's better left to tools like rpmlint..


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