Re: More declarative RPMs

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On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 09:17 +0100, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Dne 15. 02. 22 v 22:08 Matthew Kenigsberg napsal(a):
> > It sounds like there's already some effort to make tasks in RPMs like adding users more declarative:https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/UsersAndGroups/
> Which is still not finished and you still need to call the old scriptlet when you need the user to exist during %post. :(
> > Do you think it would be possible to move some of the configuration tasks performed in scriptlets into something declarative that could be merged with other configuration?
> 
> Yes. Take the
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz
> 
> grep for common scriptlets and resolve them one-by-one. Starting with common one. But it is huge task!
> 
> You can choose where you will start:
> 
> * mkfontdir - which can be replaced by filetriggers.
> 
> * update-desktop-database - which - I believe - has been already replaced by filetriggers, but it is still used.
> 
> *update-alternatives - which no one yet touched
> 
> .... and many many others

As well as Zbigniew, I believe Will Woods was quite interested in this
stuff for a while. Not sure if he still is.
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