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

[Michael A. Peters]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 17:06 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 24 octobre 2005 à 07:29 -0700, Michael A. Peters a écrit :
> 
> > gnumeric has no business owning /usr/share/mc
> 
> Sure, but what are the practical consequences ? Will it break anything ?
> 
> The bad side-effects of not owning it are well known,

The bad side-effects of not owning it is a directory that isn't owned by
any package. The doesn't cause an operation conflict for running any
software that I know of.

If we are going to take the position that every package MUST uninstall
cleanly removing all unused directories at all times, then the right
thing to do is split the files off into a subpackage that requires mc.

>  no one has pointed
> out yet any bad side-effect of owning it.

The practice can result in a directory being owned by many different
packages, which I think is worse than an empty directory owned by
nothing.

-=-
That being said - I don't object to gnumeric owning the directory.
I just think that it would be better if it did not.