rpms/gnumeric/FC-4 gnumeric.spec,1.3,1.4

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:15:05 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:

> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >> Log Message:
> >> own dirs /usr/share/mc/templates /usr/share/mc
> > 
> > This is exaggeration. Unowned directories due to optional dependencies are
> > not worth fixing like this. This creates a situation where package
> > "gnumeric" _and_ "mc" own /usr/share/mc while it ought to be _only_ "mc"
> > which should own that directory. If "mc" is not installed, the mc files
> > included in gnumeric are useless anyway.
> 
> Isn't this the case where we can use triggers ? Install the mc templates
> provided by gnumeric in /usr/share/gnumeric/mc for example, and set a
> trigger to symlink them to /usr/share/mc/templates when mc is installed.
> This is what is used in the bash-completion package.

Although a few more packages with trigger scripts have been created since
fedora.us, I vaguely remember somebody from within the Fedora Project
saying that triggers should be avoided as much as possible because they
are evil. ;)  This is no quote, just from my memory.