[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: Provide option for %setup to strip path parts in tarballs (#548)

[Jeff Johnson]

Changing %patch creates a bigger legacy compatibility problem than any "fix" solves.

If you truly think that %patch needs to be improved, the please prototype an entirely new macro-in-C implementation and add whatever you wish to see.

For starters, %patch in rpm is forced to carry options that were changed in patch(1) a long time ago.

And %patch does not permit specifying the myriad incompatible options of multiple incompatible decompressors that did not exist last century.

But forget changing %patch, replace with a new and different macro that does whatever you wish.

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