On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 16:44 +0200, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 10/20/2014 04:08 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> 3) From a user's perspective, if they see configuration for a service or > >> application in their package list, they may assume that package is > >> installed and running, leading to confusion. > > > > That is more worrying, yes. > > If showing a separate package in the installed package list is a > problem, then the configuration files could be shipped directly in the > fedora-release-* packages too. Which also incidentally makes the whole > thing much easier to handle because that way we'd have less conflicting > packages in the repository. > > I'm sure there are downsides to this though, like configuration possibly > getting out of sync with the actual programs if nobody takes care of > updating the fedora-release-* packages. Polluting the fedora-release packages with internal details of other packages seems like a terrible idea to me, honestly. Configuration should remain with the package (and packager) that understands it.
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