odd file-requires in f7 packages

[Peter Gordon]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 14:49 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> and I generated this list:
> http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/what-requires-crazy-files.txt
> 
Which contains: 
> openbox-0:3.3.1-6.fc7.i386:/usr/share/gnome/wm-properties

This one was because no package previously owned this dir, so when it
became part of the gnome-session package (#216514), I added it as a
dependency instead of providing it as part of the openbox package (as
had been done earlier) so that it would not conflict with a system
package (gnome-session):

* Thu Nov 23 2006 Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> - 3.3.1-4
- Don't own %%{_datadir}/gnome/wm-properties anymore, as that's now
  owned by gnome-session in Rawhide and we should not have ownership
  conflicts with Core packages.


> openbox-0:3.3.1-6.fc7.i386:/usr/share/themes

This one is due to the fact that Openbox places themes
into /usr/share/themes; so it owns the theme folders it creates; but not
the parent. Should I add this ownership to the spec file and remove the
requirement? (Right now, this directory is provided by either
gtk2-engines and metacity.)

> xine-plugin-0:1.0-3.fc7.i386:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> gxine-mozplugin-0:0.5.11-4.fc7.i386:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> mozilla-opensc-signer-0:0.11.2-2.fc7.i386:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> gnash-plugin-0:0.7.2-2.fc7.i386:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
> HelixPlayer-plugin-1:1.0.7-5.fc7.i386:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

These (not my packages) are due to the fact the user could potentially
have Firefox, XULrunner, or some other Gecko-using browser
(KHTML/Konqerour too?) which defaults to looking in this directory for
plugins. Thus, any of these browsers can provide the directory ownership
and hardcoding a dependency on a specific browser seems too intrusive.|

Thanks, Seth!
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