On Jan 28, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:57 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>>
>>> You can also remove the "rpmbuild" executable as all of its
>>> functionality is also in "rpm". Also, you can remove a dozen  
>>> installed
>>> scripts in case you don't need them...
>>
>> Actually rpmbuild CLI _COULD_ be added to rpm afain, but has not  
>> been done
>> afair.
>
> Ops? Then I really missed something important myself, too. I remove
> "rpmbuild" myself all the time and pretty fine use just "rpm" --
> including for all build commands like "rpm -bb", "rpm -bs", etc. What
> functionality would be not in "rpm" and which is in "rpmbuild"?
>

No, my mistake. I'm mis-recalling:

     $ rpm -ba
     rpm: no spec files given for build

Conceptually, rpmbuild <-> rpm should be separated, build issues
and install issues are very different.

But from an engineering POV, all depends on whether -DIAM_RPM (or  
each mode
separately) is passed when compiling.

73 de Jeff