Linus Torvalds wrote:
Now, I'm not certain how happy RPM would be with having one source RPM
generate multiple binary RPM's, so we might have problems with some stupid
RPM rules, but I think we should really do this. There's always going to
be some extra feature that not everybody needs, but that it would be silly
to have its own project for.
RPM is more than happy to do this. It's a standard feature of RPM. The
current RPM, however, is structured in a way that makes it somewhat
painful, as it depends a little too much on wildcards.
-hpa