Remove legacy "%global preferred over %define" guideline #1541

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james merged 1 commit from gotmax23/packaging-guidelines:global-req into main

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Maxwell G	2a20265918	Remove legacy "%global preferred over %define" guideline There is no strong reason to universally recommend %global over %define, and RPM upstream has good documentation in rpm-macros(7) explaining the difference. See #1449 and #1454 for more discussion. Closes: #1449	2026-05-18 12:49:36 -05:00

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Maxwell G

2a20265918

Remove legacy "%global preferred over %define" guideline

There is no strong reason to universally recommend %global over %define,
and RPM upstream has good documentation in rpm-macros(7) explaining the
difference.
See #1449 and
#1454 for
more discussion.

Closes: #1449

2026-05-18 12:49:36 -05:00