Core packages are using %config for files being installed under /usr

[Rex Dieter]

Chip Coldwell wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:41:23AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>  While reviewing some fonts-* packages , I saw files being installed
>>>> under /usr are marked as %config in their SPECS as shown below
>>>> %config(noreplace) %verify(not md5 size mtime) %{ttfontdir}/fonts.alias
>>> ...
>>>> How to handle this issue?
>>> IMO, the fonts.alias example is a fair use of %config that's ok in my book.
>> But we do want /usr to be "stateless". Although I can see that fixing
>> the fonts.alias issues may be non-trivial.
> 
> I agree.  Ideally, /usr could be a filesystem mounted read-only.  Somebody 
> shoulda told those X11 guys that.

OTOH, fonts.alias is way-old legacy pre-fontconfig stuff anyway.  Is xfs 
gone yet? (:

-- Rex