Directories not owned by package

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le ven 16/01/2004 à 11:12, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:35:05 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > Le ven 16/01/2004 à 01:12, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> > > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:08:25 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Well, if anyone cared about it the solution is simple - just make rpm
> > > > refuse to install packages if they make use of unclaimed directories.
> > > 
> > > Won't always be appropriate. There are packages with optional
> > > dependencies, which means they include files to be used together with some
> > > other component that is not a strict dependency. 
> > 
> > Then wouldn't it be appropriate that *both* packages own these
> > directories ? Since you are not enforcing any ordering anyway, the
> > symlinks issue is moot.
> 
> If both packages owned the directories, a query like "which package owns
> directory /foo?" would give worse results.

This is a much weaker point IMHO. Since both packages use  and create
this directory independently, they should appear in this listing.

The user may very well want to know which damn package created a dir
he's objecting to, so by making the dir unowned you're not helping him
at all.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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