%optional essentially means "please include this file into the package, but I'm
explicitly OK if it disappears from the package at any time for whatever reason
because I don't care".
Specfile syntax in its current form is already used for careless packaging,
there is hardly any need to encourage bad practices by introducing new features
like %optional.
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