[Fedora-packaging] Should /usr/share/aclocal be in filesystem?

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 18:07:54 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 14:05 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 11:15 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Many packages dump their aclocal files in /usr/share/aclocal, but really 
> > don't need to require automake for normal usage.  Should all of these 
> > packages also own /usr/share/aclocal, or should it get moved to filesystem?
> 
> Seems like a decent idea to move to filesystem.
> 

Can we please not change our stance on this every other release ? 
I've added tons of Requires: automake for this exact reason. 
And it doesn't seem like a big burden for a devel package to require
automake. If we are not talking about devel packages, then that would be
the thing to fix...




More information about the Fedora-packaging mailing list