On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:41:11 +0100, Florian wrote: > As far as I can see right now there is only one thing that RPM could do: > Create a file requires to all directories that the packages places files in > and is not part of the package itself. From my (RPM) perspective this is a > good, save and simple to implement solution. So far, so good. It would make up a %dir entry for all directories not included in the package's %files list. > But it comes with the price of > yum requiring (and though downloading) the file list for each and every > transaction. Why that? There is no "Requires: /orphaned/directory" anywhere in the package. Yum does not and would not care about the files metadata at all. RPM would simply add the missing "%dir /orphaned/directory" on-the-fly during package installation. That would make it possible to remove the directory with the last package that owns it (RPM %dir refcount == 1 and directory being empty). -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
