I think spec files are asinine. Throwing it all in one specially formatted file and using weird macros to define the build steps. Deb is terrible too, but mostl

I think spec files are asinine. Throwing it all in one specially formatted file and using weird macros to define the build steps. Deb is terrible too, but mostly just because they split everything up too much. The actual file formats are nice to work with. E.g. the rules file is just a make script and the install files are lists of files to install and their destinations. Ports systems like alpine/arch/void are nice, but they also handle less (except for void maybe, that ports system has built in support for a lot of different build systems, so packaging a cmake or meson project is a breeze).