Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478613 Jim Radford <radford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flag|needinfo?(radford@blackbean | |.org) | --- Comment #7 from Jim Radford <radford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2010-05-25 12:57:40 EDT --- > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:UnownedDirectories > MUST: Packages must not own files or directories already owned by other packages It is common for this rule to be broken for the very reasons I outlined. See for example the rule on MIME files. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets#mimeinfo Notice that like bash_completion, you just drop a file in the directory. If you have shared-mime-info, bash-completion or in this case emacs installed then things just work and if you don't they work as well. Win-win. The reason humans do reviews is so they can make exceptions to well meaning but not always applicable rules. If these prominent examples are not enough to convince you, I'm sure I can find more... See: clisp puppet monotone ... Then again there are lots of packages that have a separate emacs packages. I still hold that this is a stupid practice. I want things to just work and given the limits of rpm/yum, the best way in this case to just include the emacs mode in the main package. As for the directory ownership issue, I'm ambivalent. Some packages (like puppet) grab the common directory and some like the users of bash-completion and shared-mime-info don't. Given that the latter uses are explicit policy, I lean toward that, but both have merits. > I'd find it hard to go ahead with this review. I suggest contacting the fedora-packaging list for a clarification, or I can step back and you can try convincing another maintainer that dangling links are the best way out of this. No problem. Thanks for your time. I'll consider bringing it up on the list if no one else steps up. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review