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

[Nicolas Mailhot]

> > > > Le lundi 24 octobre 2005 à 12:28 +0200, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> > > > 
> > > > > Well, I prefer semantic correctness of dependencies

The core of the problem BTW is rpm only got two states for a directory :
owned (%dir) and unowned (nothing). And this discussion shows we need a
tristate :
A semantic owner: this directory is ultimately managed by this package
B practical owner: this package will create and delete the directory if
the semantic owner is not installed (ie you're not the semantical owner,
but you don't want to depend on it)
C dependency: this package need the directory but doesn't want to manage
it at all, please autopull the semantic owner

Till we actually have a tristate there will be disagreement between
people who claim %dir is A, people who claim %dir is B, and pragmatic
people who say "it depends"

Note that clarifying the situation would enable autodeps for C instead
of manual deps like now, and repo-level checking that the perms of
directories in B state are compatible with their A conterpart.

Since there is no difference between A and B most of the time one can
probably gracefully migrate to the tristate by adding a new hint for B
or A and declaring %dir means the other state.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: Ceci est une partie de message num?riquement sign?e
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/attachments/20051024/cbaa5f88/attachment.sig>