[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] The behavior of `%{?builtin_macro:foo}` is unclear from documentation (Issue #1866)

[Panu Matilainen]

> In case of the load builtin, the behavior of %{?load:foo} is significantly different to %{load:foo}

And yeah, it is. It's unfortunate that builtin macros used : as an argument separator. In >= 4.17 you can generally use a macro without having to care whether its built-in or user-defined, eg "%load foo" will try to load file "foo" as you'd expect. There are some inconsistencies left in 4.17.0 at least but eliminating the pointless differences between builtins and other macros is the reason for this all.

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