On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:32:22AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > The vast majority of scriptlets can be eliminated if RPM knew what the > file type is - eg, if it sees an ELF library, it should automatically ... an ELF library installed in a system directory. No point in running ldconfig for /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so. Probably the best thing is to have a %ldconfig directive. > run ldconfig. If it see a desktop file it should automatically run > the desktop file install script, etc, etc. If done right you can add > more scriptlets / change existing scriptlets for any existing RPM > without needing to re-generate the RPM / spec. But yes, in general many scriptlets can be replaced with automatic detection or some sort of directive. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list