[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: support -g(lobal) and -e(xpand) options to %define (Issue #4163)

[Panu Matilainen]

pmatilai left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#4163)

There's some technical overlap in this area of course - eg we have RPMMACRO_LITERAL as a flag in the API, predating the modifier syntax. So the question is whether to mirror all modifiers to API flags (and perhaps %define options) or just some - we can't really remove existing flags.

For some reason literal as an API flag / %define option doesn't bother me at all, and ditto for the eventual read-only flag. But one-shot seems wrong. Hmm. So okay, read-only is not an expansion time item at all, but could be considered "use-time" in a broad sense (you have to look up the macro to define a new one). Dunno 😄 

Thinking about this also made me realize the modifiers are not visible anywhere, I'll need to update the macro dump code to include that.

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