Patrice Dumas (pertusus(a)free.fr) said:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:51:32PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski wrote:
> Hi.
>
> While reviewing a package, I stumbled across the use of alternatives
> and found out it's not regulated in any way in Fedora. So far, I've
> encountered three ways of handling the symlinks that are set up using
> alternatives:
> 1. some packages have Provides: for them (like cups or postfix),
Not all files are provided, only
/usr/bin/mailq
/usr/bin/newaliases
/usr/bin/rmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
while man pages are not provided. I think it is right like this.
Files have to be 'provided' so things that depend on them can work.
Hopefully nothing depends on man pages.
Bill