Too many unowned directories

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

> Jesse Keating píše v Pá 30. 01. 2009 v 13:22 -0800:
>> Why not fail the build if unowned directories are found, just like we do
>> for unowned files?  That way you catch it at build time before you try
>> and do something useful with the build.
> How do we determine which directory is unowned and which is provided by
> a dependency?  If we don't, every package would have to own /usr.

It'd be possible to turn the topmost unowned directory into a file (well, 
directory) dependency. Either at build time, which would cause a big pile 
of new file dependencies in the metadata, or rpm could generate them at 
runtime. The problem with runtime generated dependencies is just that yum 
& the like wouldn't be able to resolve them without fairly big changes.

 	- Panu -