What's worse: unowned directories or multiple owners?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:46:39 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> > You misunderstood me completely. Let me rephrase. There are multiple
> > packages which include the /usr/share/emacs directory. So, currently any
> > dependency on that directory would pull in an arbitrary package which
> > provides this directory (shortest pkg name wins in Yum). What does this
> > mean for any package which would "Requires(pre): /usr/share/emacs"?
>
> It would pull in another package you don't want and don't have any use
> for. That's why I consider it harmful.

That's why ownership of directories should be limited to one package only
_and_ no such dependencies on directories must be implemented as long as
there are multiple packages which provide that directory.

But you don't want to understand. I do not propose such a "Requires".