directory ownership

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 22:15 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In reviewing https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204417
> I found something I am not sure about:
> 
> "You have:
> %dir %{_datadir}/telepathy/
> %dir %{_datadir}/telepathy/managers/
> is it ok for other packages to have this as well, or can there be only one owner?
> If only one owner, telepathy-gabble should not be the owner."
> 
> This package is one of potentially many packages that are all optional
> and that all place their files here. Is it ok if all those packages own
> the directories, or if not, what would the best way to handle this?
> 
> "One thing I can think of is having a telepathy-managers package
> which would be required by all tp connection managers and owns those dirs, but I
> don't know how such a package is viewed upon, and if there are better solutions."

It sounds like a nice, clean solution to me.

Paul.