On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Does Fedora has any policies regarding editing or replacing (say with > symbolic links) of configuration files owned by another package? That > is, automatically on system or package installation, and not as a tool > that system administrators run explicitly to make changes to those > files. I don't see anything explicit. There's: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_file_and_directory_ownership which talks about a package owning all it's files, but it doesn't explicitly say no to this. That said, IMHO this should be forbidden. Whats the use case? kevin
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