Directories not owned by package

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:13:59 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> > The check is not to work around package bugs in Core and to own every
> > directory which a core package should include already
> 
> This is a correctness thing. It came up on the list before - ideally rpm
> should auto-own all directories a package uses (this would solve every
> single dangling directory problem and simplify specs a lot) but this
> would probably inflate the rpm db a bit and the rpm maintainer never
> managed to convince his fellow redhaters to make this change.

And that would make directory-based dependencies impossible, such as
"what package provides /var/lib/foo"?

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