On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 14:58 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
# for /usr/share/gnome/autostart
Requires: gnome-session
Great! This adds
gnome-session: 1.8 MB
control-center: 7.1 MB
GConf2: 5,5 MB
gnome-keyring: 2,3 MB
gnome-vfs2: 3.1 MB
You added at least ~ 22,8 MB overhead just for directory ownership,
although I asked you to _not_ do this. I think users of alternative
desktops and the maintainers of their spins will not be amused. Last
week you told me, that a one advantage of the new polkit is that no
longer requires GConf2, but now it's dragged in again.
Your anger is misdirected. Complain to the rpm people for not handling
directories in a sane way. Or better still, send them a patch...
Define sane. The unowned directory issue was hashed at quite a length in
January [1], every option was disliked by somebody.
Short summary of the options discussed:
a) Create file dependencies for every directory not explicitly owned by
the package at build time. Easy to do and works with everything out there
but causes *huge* metadata bloat.
b) Calculate directory dependencies at runtime. Easy to do but either
causes transactions to abort due to missing dependencies whenever unowned
directories are found, or would require changing all the depsolvers to
know about and handle the implicit directory dependencies too.
c) Have rpm silently add ownership of unowned directories to the package
that creates them. This could cause weird directory conflicts when some
other package actually owns the directory / becomes the owner, and just
feels wrong anyhow.
d) Variations of a-c where it'd just warn about the unowned directories.
I've been playing with using directories for additional ordering
information (fairly easy to do), c) is basically a one-liner patch on top
of that.
[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg02326.html
- Panu -
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