-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 /usr/share/gnome/help is owned by yelp. According to the packaging guidelines, section 1.35: File and Directory Ownership, use case 2: "there are several instances where it's desirable for multiple packages to own a directory. Examples of this are: ... 2) Multiple packages have files in a common directory but none of them requires others. ... In all cases we are guarding against unowned directories being present on a system. Unowned directories are affected by the umask of the user installing the package and thus can be a security risk or lead to packages which won't run." For GNOME packages, the consensus as expressed in existing packages seems to be to assume that yelp is installed, and so individual packages neither Requires: yelp (since the basic functionality does not depend on it) nor own /usr/share/gnome/help. Is this not dangerous, though? For instance, someone running an alternative desktop, and using yum to install selected GTK/GNOME packages might end up with a dangling /usr/share/gnome/help if yelp is never installed. Should applications that put files under /usr/share/gnome/help be required to own it (or depend on yelp)? In that case, there's a lot of clean-up to do w.r.t. GNOME packages. Thanks, - -- Michel Salim -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhMSekACgkQWt0J3fd+7ZBYcgCghcJmnX6cKMOIetlA46GuWmpK AM8An1cxYMZlLF/TaJi8fC/URrE0R0wF =oV21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
