On Sunday, 22 February 2009 at 20:03, Rex Dieter wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > >>Hi all, > >> > >>Here's a draft that - after deciding which solution is best - should > >>eventually be put into Packaging Guidelines: > >> > >>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsingAlternatives > >> > >>I tried to list all pros and cons of each solution. > >>I'm personally hesitating between using %ghost or Provides:, but I'd > >>prefer the Provides: solution. > > >If the only con of the %ghost solution is that it conflicts with "files > >owned by multiple packages are forbidden" > > I would advocate the use of %ghost. It works, provided the contents of > all the targets are the same, ie, if they all use: > touch /far/bar > > Conflicts will arise to simply highlight pkgs not following the > convention (ie, being a valuable debugging tool). Sounds good to me. Thanks for the comments. I'll incorporate them in the draft and present it later for approval. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
