Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:51:57 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Michael Schwendt wrote: >> > Making a file %ghost, when multiple packages use the alternatives >> > system for a shared set of paths, would be wrong. >> I disagree, I've done it, and it works just fine. I've advocated that >> all alternatives-using-packages (particularly jpackage ones) use this >> technique. > Now you've got N packages which pretend they own a file/symlink. That's as it should be, imo. You would rather the file/symlink be unowned? > The alternatives symlink is a configuration value and doesn't belong into > any package. The admin could also point the symlink to something in > /usr/local, and you don't want to remove his customisation when an rpm is > uninstalled. Stuff done outside of rpm is done by a local admin at their own risk. -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
