Hi, Trying to fulfill all requirements regarding the directory ownership described here http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#FileAndDirectoryOwnership has some implications for the f-spot package: Please consider the following: A package (here f-spot) provides a screensaver plugin for gnome-screensaver in /usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver/ . I see 3 possible solutions how to handle the directory ownership of /usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver (which is already owned by gnome-screensaver package): 1. The most trivial way would be to let f-spot depend on the gnome-screensaver, don't own /usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver and just put its executable there. The drawback is that it may not be wanted that the installation of a photo managing software requires the installation of a specific screensaver. 2. The f-spot package could make use of the exception and own /usr/libexec/gnome-screensaver/ as well. However, the functionality-wise f-spot's screensaver would still depend on gnome-screensaver. There would be also the minor problem that the package would claim to provide a functionality in various menus which would not be there if gnome-screensaver would not be installed. 3. I could move screensaver part of f-spot into a sub-package. Only the sub-package would then require gnome-screensaver. This would properly satisfy all packaging requirements, but the users who want this functionality must install the sub-package manually since they will loose this feature during the update from the complete package to the one which is split in two parts. >From a packaging point of view I tend to choose option 3 despite its drawbacks. Would this be a good way? Best regards, Christian -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
