[Fedora-packaging] Single package directory ownership

[Paul Howarth]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> I'm running into a situation with this rule.
> 
> The xorg package set.  There is xorg-x11-server-Xorg, and a lot of 
> xorg-x11-drv-foo packages.  The drv packages drop files 
> in /usr/lib/xorg/modules and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers  (lib64 for 
> obvious places).  However, xorg-x11-server-Xorg also puts files there.  
> Normally we'd say that xorg-x11-server-Xorg must own those directories and 
> not the drivers.  BUT xorg-x11-server-Xorg requires drivers, drivers require 
> Xorg, insert dep loop here.
> 
> The X folks think that when RPM is faced with this, it will make an arbitrary 
> decision at where to do the transaction, and there could be a case where 
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg is removed before a drv package, and unless all the drv 
> packages own the modules and drivers dirs, those directories could get left 
> behind.
> 
> Does this qualify as an exception to the single ownership rule?  I've cc'd 
> Mike and Ajax from the X team as they are not on this list.  Please include 
> them in CCs for the discussion (reply-all on smart clients).

Why not introduce an xorg-x11-filesystem package that owns the 
directories and everything else can depend on?

Paul.