On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Bélanger schrieb: >> >> If the packaging problem is simply the files being installed in >> /tmp, that can be easily fixed. Instead of installing the files in >> /tmp, just install them somewhere else (/usr/share/ttf-ms-fonts/ ?) >> where they won't be deleted. > > The problem is that files are installed at run-time and cannot be tracked by > pacman. That is a no-go for packages! > > For this, we could use touch to create empty files in the correct location in the package. These empty files would be replace by the correct files on post install. Still messy but pacman will know which files belongs to the package. The downside is that we don't know the package size either on download or on install.
