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

[Ville Skyttä]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 03:51 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 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.

Unowned directories from packages get dumped to the filesystem with
permissions that depend on umask.  With a 0077 umask which isn't that
rare for root (it's even the default in some distros), it means
0700,root,root and likelihood of such operation conflicts is increased.
How much and how bad, depends on what dirs and how they're being used.