I'm packaging cmake
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184467> and I'd
like to ship the emacs .el file and vim .vim files. Currently, I have:
%package emacs
Summary: Emacs support for cmake
Group: Development/Tools
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: %{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
%description emacs
%{summary}.
%package vim
Summary: Vim support for cmake
Group: Development/Tools
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: %{_datadir}/vim/vim64/syntax, %{_datadir}/vim/vim64/indent
%description vim
%{summary}.
%files emacs
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_datadir}/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode.el
%files vim
%defattr(-,root,root,-)
%{_datadir}/vim/vim64/syntax/cmake.vim
%{_datadir}/vim/vim64/indent/cmake.vim
Which I believe is the pedantically correct way to do it, but cumbersome
as folks need to know to install the -emacs or -vim package as desired.
I do want to avoid requiring emacs and vim in the main package though.
Some suggestions have been:
- Another simplistic approach is to
1. install the files to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
2. include these in the main pkg (ie, no subpkg)
3. Add no additional/special Requires wrt emacs.
It's simple and it works (when emacs is installed, or any other package that
"owns" /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp). At worst, when emacs is not
installed, you
have files installed into an unowned dir. IMO, the benefits of this
approach
(mostly it's simplicity) outweigh the disadvantage of installing files
into a
potentially unowned dir (site-lisp).
- Another possibility is to own "/usr/share/emacs". Several other
packages do this.
The second is discouraged in the Fedora Extras Packaging Guidelines
except for a "good reason".
I like the first, but don't know what the issues with unowned
directories are. The packaging guidelines don't seem to address this
directly.
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