What's worse: unowned directories or multiple owners?

Tue Mar 28 20:07:13 UTC 2006

orion at cora.nwra.com (Orion Poplawski) writes:

> I want to install a file into /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ but I don't want
> to Requires: /usr/share/emacs/site-list/.  Do I own /usr/share/emacs... in
> my package or do I leave open the possibility that the dir is unowned if
> emacs in not installed?

Place the files into a subpackage with the corresponding Requires: for
emacs.

Another fix (which requires work in Core) would be an lightweighted
emacs-filesystem package which defines only the filesystem used by
Emacs. Same applies to things like pkgconfig or autoconf.

Enrico
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