Core merge and Package Guidelines

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sat Feb 10 05:24:01 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:35 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said: 
> > * Clean rpm-installation/package removal
> > 
> > => One option is the same approach as it is being applied to
> > perl-modules: "Any directory under /usr/lib/perl* which is not part of
> > the basesystem and the base-perl package must be owned by the
> > perl-module"
> 
> Just patch RPM to unlink-but-no-error-if-failed up the filesystem
> directory tree on removal.

"Accepting patches"

I think you will find that problem is a lot harder to solve than you
think it is. However, I would be very pleased to be proven wrong. :)

~spot




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