Sure, it would contain some files on almost every system anyway. If it contains already /usr/lib64/pm-utils/power.d, I guess it can (co)own few directories of systemd. Much more used in my opinion. Opened pull request for it: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/filesystem/pull-request/6 On 8/6/21 1:44 AM, Björn Persson wrote: > Petr Menšík wrote: >> No, that is the reason why I proposed it. Guidelines already state >> *-filesystem packages does not have to be depended on [1]. Just one, >> probably systemd or systemd-libs, should depend on it to get it >> installed. All other can then just ignore the directory exactly as you >> have proposed. In this case it would not be breaking guidelines, but >> according to them instead. >> >> 1. >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_file_and_directory_ownership > That is contradicted by the following quote from the Packaging > Guidelines: > > | Sometimes, it may be preferable for such directories to be owned by > | an "artificial filesystem" package, such as mozilla-filesystem. These > | packages are designed to be explicitly required when other packages > | store files in their directories, thus, in such situations, these > | packages should explicitly Require the artificial filesystem package > | and not multiply own those directories. > > That is, each of those 1600 packages would need to require > systemd-filesystem. > > Perhaps the filesystem package should own these directories? Not > systemd-filesystem, just filesystem. The case is rather similar to > /usr/share/bash-completion, /usr/share/man, /usr/share/info and various > other directories that filesystem owns. > > Björn Persson > -- Petr Menšík Software Engineer Red Hat, http://www.redhat.com/ email: pemensik@xxxxxxxxxx PGP: DFCF908DB7C87E8E529925BC4931CA5B6C9FC5CB _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
