Toshio Kuratomi wrote, at 12/11/2010 02:00 AM +9:00: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 08:40:23PM +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote: >> Thomas Moschny wrote, at 12/10/2010 08:19 PM +9:00: >>> That seems by far the cleanest solution to me. Especially >>> development-oriented packages often contain example directories; >>> removing x-bits there only puts extra-burden on someone trying to play >>> with the examples. >> >> Indeed some examples/ directory contains some executable scripts >> which are useful to understand what the package can do. >> I think "%doc files must not have executable permissions" must be >> reverted. >> > To my mind, if you have examples that you want to be runnable by the user > and you want them to not have to perform chmod 0755 to achieve that, you'd > also want rpm to ensure that the dependencies for those examples are > installed. So, when a package - contains some example scripts - the packager thinks that such scripts are useful and many people actually want to execute them - but such scripts need additional dependencies then the packager actually may want to add additional dependencies. So - Loosen the guideline to "%doc files should not add "too much" additional dependency" - If executing %doc scripts want some "large" additional dependency, move such scripts to somewhere else (out of /usr/share/doc, e.g. %_libdir/%name/examples), or create subpackage like %name-examples ? (By the way I think in most cases additional dependencies are actually not needed) Regards, Mamoru -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
